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Education > Education (Other) What place do libraries have in our education system today, considering the rise in Internet-based research?: 61 of 62

Soon after the brash arrival of the Internet, together with its ever-increasing popularity came the predictable warning cry: "Computers will take the place of books! Our lives will never be the same again!" Yet, paradoxically it would seem, book sales continue to grow at a healthy rate and even more interestingly, libraries seemed to be used more than ever. Could it be that instead of working against each other, the Internet and libraries complement each other? Ask any person about to start his research what his first stop and the answer will generally and predictably be, "The Internet". H...
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