10 Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library

In an effort to save our culture, strike a blow for reading, and, above all, correct the well-intentioned but horribly misguided notions about what is fast becoming Intertopia among many nonlibrarian bean counters, here are 10 reasons why the Internet is no substitute for a library.

Ah, Libraries: How I Love the Smell of... Electronic Access?!

In the olden days, we Baby-Boomers would walk into our university or college libraries and pause just long enough to take in that wonderful smells of high grade cowhide leather and aging papyrus before rushing off to study. There was something about opening any leather bound edition of anything and being transported by the smell to some distant land, not unlike Charles Swann in Marcel Proust’s famous French novel, A La Recherché du Temps Perdu, Remembrance of Things Past.

Vertigo, and a Void

Why the Internet is no substitute for a library.

Bibliotheca Heberiana. Catalogue of the library of the late Richard Heber.

Mode of access: Internet.

INTERNET EN LAS BIBLIOTECAS PÚBLICAS COSTARRICENSES: SU IMPORTANCIA PARA ACORTAR LA BRECHA DIGITAL

Al ser la biblioteca pública de acceso libre y gratuito, se constituye como uno de los medios de información y conocimiento que ofrece oportunidades a todos los miembros de la comunidad y desde donde se pueden hacer efectivos los derechos a la información, la educación, la cultura y la recreación.De acuerdo con la UNESCO, es responsabilidad de la bibliotecapública facilitar el acceso al conocimiento y a la información a través de Internet, y con ello lograr su desarrollo y evolución tecnológica.Actualmente, la biblioteca pública costarricense esta incursionando paulatinamente en el mundo de las TIC y está tratando de integrarse en la revolución digital para ofrecer servicios novedosos, de calidad y seguir siendo útiles para los ciudadanos (as), y a la vez, está procurando acortar la brecha digital de quienes tienen menos oportunidades.

The Future of the Book: Does It Have One?

While the book has been with us for two millennia, digital artifact threaten its permanence. Now we being to wonder if it has a future at all.

Hacked Off in the Web

According to a new report (http://tinyurl.com/2g6ghps), if you are on the Web at all you’re not safe from hackers, phishers, and spammers (oh my!). The Norton Cybercrime Report: The Human Impact (http://cybercrime.newslinevine.com/) of 7,000 Web users tells us that 65% of all users globally, and 73% of U. S. users, have been hacked in some sort of cybercrime. Globally, the U. S. ranks very high but in this case we’re not first in line. China wins Number One with 83% of its users web-abused in some manner. These are figures to give one pause.

Influência dos intermediários de distribuição de produtos turísticos no processo de decisão do meio de hospedagem pelo consumidor

This study examines the complex hotel buyer decision process in front of the tourism distribution channels. Its objective is to describe the influence level of the tourism marketing intermediaries, mainly the travel agents and tour operators, over the hotel decision process by the buyer-tourist. The data collection process was done trough a survey with three hundred brazilian tourists hosted in nineteen hotels of Natal, capital of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The data analysis was done using some multivariate statistic techniques as correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, factor analysis and multiple discriminant analysis. The research characterizes the hotel services consumers profile and his trip, and identifying the distribution channels used by them. Furthermore, the research verifies the intermediaries influence exercised over hotel buyer decision process, looking for identify causality relations between the influence level and the buyer profile. Verifies that information about hotels available on internet reduces the probability that this influence can be practiced; however it was possible identifying those consumers considers this information complementary and non-substitutes than the information from intermediaries. The characteristics of the data do not allow indentifying the factors that constraint the intermediaries influence neither identifying discriminant functions of the specific distribution channel choice by consumers. The study concludes that consumers don t agree in have been influenced by intermediaries or don t know if they have, still considering important to consult them and internet doesn t substitute their function as information source

Carmina votiva and other occasional verses,

"Of this collection only 125 copies have been printed for England and America, and the type has been broken up. "

The Californian.

Editor: 1891-, C.F. Holder.

R.P. Francisci Suarez, Granatensis, e Societate Iesu doctoris theologi, et in Connimbricensi Academia Sacrarum Literarum primarii professoris opus, De virtute et statu religionis. Quo quid contineatur, index proximus indicabit.

Also issued as part of collection with collective title page, engraved portrait of author, biographical preface, and contents list: "R.P. Francisci Suarez Granatensis, e Societate Iesu Doctoris Theologi, et in Regia Conimbricensi Academia primarij theologiae professoris emeriti Opera omnia quorum cathalogum vide lector in vita authoris. Moguntiae, Sumptibus Hermanni Mylij Birckmanni Excudebat Balthasar Lippius. Anno M. DCXXI."

Theologiae R.P. Fr. Suarez e Societate Jesu, summa, seu compendium /

Table of contents at end of each volume.

Doct. Francisci Suarez Granatensis, ex Societate Iesu, Tractatus theologicus, de vera intelligentia auxilii efficacis, eiúque concordia, cum libero arbitrio : opys posthumum, ad stabiliendas definitiones fidei, à S.D.N. Innocentio X. contra Iansenium eiéusque partiarios, editas, accommodatum : prodit nunc primum.

Errors in pagination: nos. 201, 265-266, and 414 numbered respectively 191, 267-268, and 408; nos. 276-277 omitted.