Research Catalog

Title

Fool's gold : why the Internet is no substitute for a library / Mark Y. Herring.

Author

Herring, Mark Y., 1952-

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Description

vii, 191 pages; 26 cm

Summary

"This work skeptically explores the notion that the Internet will soon obviate any need for traditional print-based academic libraries. It makes a case for the library's staying, power in the face of technological advancements (television, microfilm, and CD-ROMs were all once predicted as the contemporary library's heir-apparent), and devotes individual chapters to the pitfalls and prevarications of popular search engines, e-books, and the mass digitization of traditional print material."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Computer network resources > Evaluation
• Web sites > Evaluation
• Libraries and the Internet
• Libraries and electronic publishing
• Libraries > Forecasting
• Library science > Forecasting
• Electronic books > Forecasting

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-187) and index.

Contents

1. Caught in the Web -- 2. Forget the needle : can you just tell me which haystack? -- 3. Weare18.com -- 4. Footnotes? : who needs them! -- 5. Google Uber Alles -- 6. E-books to the rescue! -- 7. The paperless revolution is complete! -- 8. A mile wide and a mind-numbing inch deep -- 9. The endgame : Quo Vadis?

ISBN

• 9780786430826 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0786430826 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007013548

OCLC

• ocn123119572
• 123119572
• SCSB-14506602

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries