Hands On The Heartland
Checking The Pulse Of The Kansas City Real Estate Market
I was reading an old 2001 article on a site called Warrior Librarians that said “…yes, the Internet can be a valuable extension to the school’s library collection. But remember, it is mammoth in scale, unordered, and mainly unchecked. If you can imaging the world’s biggest (print) encyclopedia, with every page ripped out, and each page ripped up, then the whole lot scattered like confetti… then try to find the meaning of a single term from a heap of unordered scraps of paper, you get some idea of the problems involved in using the Internet as an information source…” Wow! That’s not the internet I know today, as 87% of home buyers find their homes online and are able to make order out of the “confetti”!
I’d guess in an average week there’s hundreds of instances where I search the internet for something and 99% of the time I find what I sought. In fact, it’s so rare that I go searching for something and come away empty handed that it’s actually quite surprising – and irritating – when I can’t find the answer. Yet despite the value the internet provides, I believe libraries still play a very important role as an organized information source. Going to the library is also about more than just the books, there’s an atmosphere at the library that the internet just can’t duplicate. Most importantly to me, I REALLY enjoy watching my boys read a book. For some reason I don’t get the same enjoyment out of watching them learn online and maybe it’s because I know the tempation of the games is just a mouse click away.
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Posted by Jason A. Brown
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