Fool's Gold: Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library

By Mark Youngblood Herring

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-ROM's 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786430826
• ISBN13: 9780786430826
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher