[WEB4LIB] The Changing Academic Library

[Sloan, Bernie]

Interesting article, but there are a couple of things that give me pause:

1. "Users, who can search through years of materials with the click of a
mouse, are swamping librarians with e-mailed reference questions." I don't
think I've seen any data that shows e-mail reference usage coming close to
the volume of face-to-face reference, let alone "swamping librarians".

2. "Plagiarism is at an all-time high -- up about 40 percent in the past
five years -- because students can easily cut and paste material from the
Web."  A recent study featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education seems to
suggest otherwise: http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002020101t.htm

Bernie Sloan

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>From SFGate (2/10/02)

"Preference for online research has its price"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/02/10/MN169969.DTL




Shirl Kennedy
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