[Web4lib] New Yorker piece on digitization, libraries, etc.

[B.G. Sloan]

  Grafton, Anthony. Future reading: Digitization and its discontents. The New Yorker, November 5, 2007. http://tinyurl.com/2qvp2j 
   
  An excerpt:
   
  "Sit in your local coffee shop, and your laptop can tell you a lot. If you want deeper, more local knowledge, you will have to take the narrower path that leads between the lions and up the stairs. There—as in great libraries around the world—you’ll use all the new sources...But these streams of data, rich as they are, will illuminate, rather than eliminate, books and prints and manuscripts that only the library can put in front of you. The narrow path still leads, as it must, to crowded public rooms where the sunlight gleams on varnished tables, and knowledge is embodied in millions of dusty, crumbling, smelly, irreplaceable documents and books."
   
  Bernie Sloan

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