Re: books vs. computers -- again!

[Leslie Starasta <lstarast@ROE51.K12.IL.US>]

It would be great to have laptops available for students to use especially
to take notes from books and journals rather than make copies.  However,  I
think we need to keep reminding ourselves of a good point made in the
article "Information found--and not found-- on the Web" by Kathryn L.
Schwartz, located in the A+ Research Guide at Internet Public Library
(www.ipl.org).
    "What's not on the web --at least for free-- are most of the
comprehensive reference works you'd find in a library reference room and
nonfiction collection.  . . .The exceptions to this are some dictionaries,
almanacs and other single-volume reference works" . . ."If you look at the
list of what's not on the web, it covers about 90% of the contents of a
college library's collection, both the refernece and the circulating
collection.  It's apparent that researchers still have to spend a good
portion of their research time in the library rather than on the web."


Leslie Starasta, Librarian
Auburn Jr.High and High School
Auburn, IL 62615
(217) 438-6817
<lstarast@roe51.k12.il.us

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