[Web4lib] Do School Libraries Need Books? (essays from a NY Times blog)

[Thomas Edelblute]

In 2008 I participated in a strategic planning exercise for the Anaheim Public Library.  As part of this, we interviewed stakeholders through the community.  I was part of an interview team that interviewed the Deputy Chief of Police who credited the public library as being one of the major crime prevention institutions in the city.

Tom

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Interesting set of essays from a NY Times blog:

"Keeping traditional school libraries up to date is costly, with the constant need to acquire new books and to find space to store them. Yet for all that trouble, students roam the stacks less and less because they find it so much more efficient to work online...Do schools need to maintain traditional libraries? What are the educational consequences of having students read less on the printed page and more on the Web?"

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/do-school-libraries-need-books/

Bernie Sloan



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