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Find a job? Do research? Navigate government documents? Even with respect to education we're seeing innovation from things like the Khan Academy. If you expect
by ez77 15y ago
Find a job? Do research? Navigate government documents? Even with respect to education we're seeing innovation from things like the Khan Academy.
If you expect the average citizen to do all those things online it may be reasonable, maybe for a generation, to replace at least some of the gone libraries by Internet literacy centers.
- king_jester 15y agoThis is the key point. Many, many people do not have the informational literacy to even begin to do research work on their own in any medium, let alone on the Internet. Furthermore, many documents and resources aren't digitized and aren't on any kind of networked computer or database, so how exactly is someone supposed to access these materials and in a timely fashion? Librarians specialize in knowing how to find and navigate those materials and sources.