10 Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library

Mark Y. Herring

translated by

Dr. Essam Ebeed

Teacher, Librarianship, Archive and Information Deprt.

Assuit University, Egypt

Keywords

Internet, libraries

Abstract

Explains why the Internet is not replacing libraries. Highlights include the lack of substantive material that is available; problems with finding what is there; the lack of quality control; physical difficulties with reading electronic texts; high costs of digitizing; and lack of access to older material. (LRW)

How To Cite This Article?

Mark Y. Herring. 10 Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library / translated by Essam Ebeed .- cybrarians journal .- No.18 (March 2009) .- Accessed <State here the date you accessed this page> .- Available at: http://www.cybrarians.info/journal/en/no18/internet.htm

The full text of this article available in Arabic at: http://www.cybrarians.info/journal/no18/internet.htm