PC magazine promotes the online library
On the heels of yesterday’s fine New York Times article promoting libraries in the age of Google, here comes a PC magazine piece written by a UCSD librarian who describes all the databases and resources that your public library may subscribe to and which you can access in or out of the library via the internet. (Source: The Virtual Chase) (Note: As librarian and weblogger colleague j and I have discussed, Gary Price has been making this point for years in the ResourceShelf.) So we have one piece on librarian savvy and resourcefulness (we know our way around information resources – it’s what we do) and another on the range of information tools that are specialized and indexed and free through your library.
Update: j links to Gary’s piece What Google Teaches us Has Nothing to Do With Searching.