Sherrill Redmon passed on to me today an article appearing in the 2/9/09 issue of The Nation, Stimulating Reading. The author, Katha Pollit appeals to President Obama to “Help books”, and goes on to describe various crises from falling library budgets to troubled newspaper and book publishers.
Public libraries face a huge challenge in this economic [...]
This is a good read from the Chronicle.
Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind – ChronicleReview.com.
In it the author, Mark Bauerlein writes that online reading is a very different kettle of fish from other types of reading such as reading a book. Undergrads now arrive at college having been reading online all their life and there [...]
Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brains.
by Nicholas Carr
