Libraries Provide More than the Internet does
according to an article I read on Forbes’ Web site. (Well, duh, right?)
Along with pointing out the variety of free content people might be able to get via a library that’s better than what they might be able to find on the Internet, including older Forbes articles, Stephen Manes makes an important marketing suggestion to librarians:
"My biggest complaint is that some libraries’ Web sites don’t detail the amazing range of services they offer online until you cough up a card number. Memo to those insular institutions: Put the info in the shop windows out front and I bet you’ll see a lot more card-carrying customers walking through the electronic doors."
(I, of course, had to check the Wikipedia article about personal computers Manes found to see if anyone changed the reference to the first use of the term “personal computer” to what he discovered in his research. The previous version was there as recently as July 19. Lllll dedicated the change to Manes.)
