Information Over Items
As with many of our resources in our modern library learning commons, we are constantly trying to figure out if it is important for print resources to stick around when there are so many benefits to using digital resources. The topics in theme three deal with many different ideas, but overall, our discussions on our course forum often came back to whether or not print resources, like dictionaries, thesauruses, and atlases, should have a main place in our libraries. This discussion around print or digital is not one that I aim to clear up in this blog post, but it is one that should be considered when thinking about building a library and types of resources that are available within in. While I agree that there should still be an availability of these library constants in print, the capabilities that digital access allows us is invaluable. Not to mention, “the cost of maintaining current volumes of [reference materials] is high…” (Riedling 118). Dictionaries can provide suggestions to...
