Jenny The Shifted Librarian adds her own take on relations between the press and librarydom. Good stuff. LIke me, she’s excited about wireless, and she is also keen on news aggregators, which she thinks will be “the way the next generation of newspaper readers get their news. In a high-speed, always-on, ubiquitous computing, wireless world, it’s a natural.” As I see it, with readers drawing on so many sources for their news, aggregators are all the more reason for a TeleRead-style approach–to smooth out the technological and business complexities.
Too, she correctly wishes that newspapers and libraries would “connect the dots” and work together more often on issues such as archiving and the popularizaition of “ask a librarian.” See my original post responding to a newspaper guru worried about the revenue of newspaper archives in an era when so many libraries are offering old stories to people at home for free.
Needless to say, TeleRead could help increase the money that libraries sent toward newspapers for archival access. Moreover, as I’ve already noted, with old stories free, civic debate would be more intelligent and special-interest groups would enjoy less of an advantage.
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The traditionalists in the industry are so focused on the elephant's trunk they are blind to the rest of the creature.
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