“Many predict that the digital age will wipe public bookshelves clean, and permanently end the centuries-old era of libraries. Technology
’s baffling prowess and progress even has one librarian predicting the institution’s demise. Here are 33 reasons librarians are still extremely important…”
Are Librarians Becoming Totally Obsolete?
January 31, 2007
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What $1.2 Trillion Can Buy
January 17, 2007“The human mind isn’t very well equipped to make sense of a figure like $1.2 trillion. We don’t deal with a trillion of anything in our daily lives, and so when we come across such a big number, it is hard to distinguish it from any other big number. Millions, billions, a trillion — they all start to sound the same.”
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