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The Future of Reading

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As the book changes form, the library must champion its own power base—readers

By Tom Peters -- Library Journal, 11/1/2009

The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century, reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and librarians fear that sustained reading for learning, for work, and for pleasure may be slowly dying out as a widespread social practice. Only at living history farms will we see people reading. For decades the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has been studying the reading habits of adult Americans, issuing a series of reports with rousingly alliterative titles such as “Reading at Risk” (July 2004) and “Reading on the Rise” (January 2009). Sometime in the 21st century, the NEA may need to issue the sobering final report in the series, “Reading, Rest in Peace.”

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Mad Science

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The Web site io9 looks at 25 of the scariest science experiments ever conducted .
Curiously absent: people who send their kids to "swine flu parties."
- Chroinicle: October 29, 2009, 12:00 PM ET

 

 
The Library-Catalog Wars

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A Chronicle of Higher Education article
on trends in library catalog software has touched off an online reader debate about who is to blame for patrons’ search frustrations and how to fix the situation. The article discussed how libraries are trying to out-Google Google with easy-to-use, online-catalog search software, while “pockets of resistance” in library circles feel the new products dumb down the research process....
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