Red-Hot Library Lust

Autor/in	Benton, Thomas H.
Titel	Red-Hot Library Lust
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 53 (2007) 24, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	College Libraries; Library Materials; Computer Uses in Education; Access to Information; Books + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College; Library; Libraries; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Bibliothek; Universitätsbibliothek; Computernutzung; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie
Abstract	Thomas Benton (a pseudonym of an associate professor of English at a Midwestern liberal-arts college) describes most college libraries of today as being clean and well-lighted, with metal shelving, veneered tabletops, and banks of computers. He fears that in 20 years, college students will regard books as a "quaint technology"--the way they now regard 33 RPM records--and laments the eventual disappearance of the tactile pleasures of the great university library. For others who find that they miss the old labyrinthine libraries with subterranean vaults, oak-paneled walls, barrel-vaulted ceilings, tread-worn library ladders, dusty old tomes, and exquisite architectural details, he recommends several books: (1) "Treasures of the New York Public Library" (Abrams, 1988); (2) "The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World" (Abrams, 2003; and (3) "Libraries" (Thames & Hudson, 2005). (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10