Excerpt: Students no longer page through encyclopedia books looking for information. They Google it.
They don't own dictionaries. They go to dictionary.com. [Though Retiring Guy recommends they go here instead.]
They don't consult librarians. They ask ChaCha.
For what it's worth, this article provides a (mostly) high school perspective.
What's about the post-secondary landscape?
Well, Retiring Guy has a snapshot of his own.
Based on 4 weeks of practicum reports by UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies graduate students, I can safely assert that librarians haven't been completely pushed aside. College students, particularly undergraduates, are heavy users of....
And at College Library, students still ask for in-person assistance at the Reference Desk in significant numbers during certain times of the week.
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