A few recently published articles about the role of digital media in the library that you might find interesting…
Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books
Boston Globe, by David Abel.
A private preparatory school in New England has done away with it’s collection of more than 200,000 printed books in one of its campus libraries, in order to implement a digital learning centre (ie. library) that contains no printed material whatsoever. Scary? Just a little. The way of the future? Maybe not yet..
This Could Be the Year of E-Textbooks, if Students Accept Them
The Chronicle of Higher Education, By Jeffrey R. Young
Discusses the pros and cons of e-textbooks, and whether they’re really set to replace the printed text. The Arizona State University is participating in a e-textbook experiment supported by Amazon, using the Kindle e-book reader, and the results to date have been mixed.
The future of libraries, with or without books
CNN, by John D. Sutter.
A fairly general article about different initiatives being undertaken by public libraries in the U.S., and how the role of the library (and the librarian!) is changing in the face of new technologies. Hardly exhaustive, but it’s an interesting starting point for discussions about digital medias in the library.
The image of the ebook reader above is from Flickr creative commons.
