Do School Libraries Need Books?
Posted by: Rebecca Vnuk
The topic on today’s New York Times Room for Debate forum is Do School Libraries Need Books? This discussion was first sparked a few months ago when Cushing Academy announced that it was giving away all of its 20,000 books and going all-digital. Here on Points of Reference there is a similar discussion; during last month’s Twenty-First Century Reference Collections Webinar, one of the questions posed to presenter Dave Tyckoson was whether school libraries still need a print encyclopedia. You can read Dave’s response, along with several comments, here.
