Sunday, February 14, 2010

Do school libraries need books ?

Here is a piece from the New York Times, Feb 14 2010, on the debate about the future of school libraries, bookless or otherwise...

"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. One school, Cushing Academy, made news last fall when it announced that it would give away most of its 20,000 books and transform its library into a digital center.

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?

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

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