Books Are a Hard Sell
‘Ulysses’ Without Guilt
By STACY SCHIFF
NYTimes February 13, 2007
There are two ways to approach our cultural crossroads. You can either wring your hands and lament — as an eloquent school librarian did recently in The Washington Post — that literacy today has less to do with Wordsworth or Faulkner and more to do with “how we find our way through the digital forest of information overload.”
A Librarian's Lament: Books Are a Hard Sell
By Thomas Washington
Washington Post January 21, 2007
I presumed that librarians were mostly united in their attraction to books. But as I moved along in my library science program, I found that books weren't really our focus. Information management, database networking and research tools claimed the largest share of the curriculum. In other words, literacy today is defined less by how English departments or a librarian might teach Wordsworth or Faulkner than by how we find our way through the digital forest of information overload.