The Sacramento Bee: Use of public libraries grows with Internet. "The University of Illinois survey, "Public Library Use and Economic Hard Times," found that since the economy tanked in March 2001 average monthly circulation has been up as much as 12 percent when compared to 2000. Interestingly, librarians say the Internet and related technological advances also seem to be fueling interest in public libraries and increasing and diversifying their workloads. Instead of making libraries irrelevant, the Web seems to be making them more valuable than ever." [via Jenny Levine]
Posted by
Mark at 9/20/2002 10:16:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
