Fool's Gold

<p> This work skeptically explores the notion that the internet will soon obviate any need for traditional print-based academic libraries. It makes a case for the library's staying power in the face of technological advancements (television microfilm and CD-ROM's were all once predicted as the contemporary library's heir-apparent) and devotes individual chapters to the pitfalls and prevarications of popular search engines e-books and the mass digitization of traditional print material.</p>