10 Reasons Why the Internet is No Substitute for the Library

The ALA website contains an article from 2001 by Mark Herring titled as above. I'm not certain I agree with everything the article says, but here are the author's ten main points:

• Not Everything Is on the Internet


• The Needle (Your Search) in the Haystack (the Web)


• Quality Control Doesn’t Exist


• What You Don’t Know Really Does Hurt You


• States Can Now Buy One Book and Distribute to Every Library on the Web—NOT!


• Hey, Bud, You Forgot about E-book Readers


• Aren’t There Library-less Universities Now?


• But a Virtual State Library Would Do It, Right?


• The Internet: A Mile Wide, an Inch (or Less) Deep


• The Internet Is Ubiquitous but Books Are Portable

Those who want to read the entire article can do so on the ALA site.

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# posted by Michael John Neill : 7:54 PM