College library rankings

hawkette
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:40:11 +0000

barrons,
I respectfully disagree. People said we’d never migrate from our daily newspapers and weekly magazines, but that is happening more and more each month and advertising dollars are switching from traditional media to the web.

Have you ever used electronic devices to read books and periodicals? Today, with products like Kindle, it is not hard to envision people using electronic devices in the future to read books and more. There is little doubt in my mind that such devices have the potential to greatly add to personal productivity. Once a book is scanned, the information is available anywhere, anytime. Furthermore, these devices have the ability to capture and carry around vast quantities of information, including books that have been scanned, and this capability will only expand with time. As for copyright issues, such products can download via pay systems that would satisfy copyright requirements. Such electronic products are now only in their infancy, but use a little imagination and their uses and benefits are obvious with the result being that the college library will become less and less of a differentiated asset.