March 2012
Intermediate to advanced
118 pages
2h 49m
English
Content preview from As I Was Saying...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
Too Soon to Let Computers Replace University Libraries
Originally published in The Japan Times, May 25, 2005. Used with permission of Michael R. Czinkota and The Japan Times.
The University of Texas (UT) at Houston has announced that it is removing almost all the books from its undergraduate library to provide space for a digital learning center, where students can use computers to access a wide variety of information. University officials are proud to be leading a trend.
It is good to see academia catching up with technology.
But what are the repercussions of this shift? I am thinking about this from various perspectives:
Teacher, researcher, ...