Pearl: A Journal of Library and Information Science
Year : 2007, Volume : 1, Issue : 2
First page : ( 37) Last page : ( 39)
Print ISSN : 0973-7081.

The Changing Library Scene: The Lament of an Old “Bookish” Soul

Dr. Ramanujam P., Reader in English

Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada.

Abstract

This article by a regular user of different libraries but a non-LIS professional looks at the emerging electronic communication in libraries from a subjective and impressionistic perspective and argues in a half-serious-half-humorous vein that the electronic environment has resulted in three kinds of losses: the loss of self-importance (in the author's own case); the loss of a sense of discovery; and the loss of comfort and solitude.

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