Adam Gopnik has an interesting essay in the latest New Yorker magazine entitled: "The Information: How the Internet gets inside us". Several library references, including my favorite:
"There is, for instance, a simple, spooky sense in which the Internet is just a loud and unlimited library in which we now live—as if one went to sleep every night in the college stacks, surrounded by pamphlets and polemics and possibilities. There is the sociology section, the science section, old sheet music and menus, and you can go to the periodicals room anytime and read old issues of the New Statesman. (And you can whisper loudly to a friend in the next carrel to get the hockey scores.) To see that that is so is at least to drain some of the melodrama from the subject. It is odd and new to be living in the library; but there isn’t anything odd and new about the library."
Full text at: http://nyr.kr/g7Xymk
Bernie Sloan
Received on Sat Feb 12 2011 - 23:44:00 EST