Are other libraries going in the same direction, or is Chicago’s new Mansueto Library bucking the trend?

Scholars are not ‘learned’ in the sense that they know a lot, because we forget most of what we know.He’s also a fan of high-quality bibliographies, which can be out of date but still have a better signal to noise ratio than the Internetz. Students come into the world thinking that the internet is the model of knowledge - whereas for my generation, students came into the world prepared by print. Remember that in effect nothing published since 1923 is available for free digitally (except US government documents) and that’s 90 percent of the collection of most university libraries. One way in which Abbott helps bring this down to earth is his concrete instructions on how to find information.

The PDF file you selected should load here if your Web browser has a PDF reader plug-in installed (for example, a recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader). The problem with project-specific files is that each project makes sense, but your overall biography starts to lose coherence — you don’t anymore have a personal library or personal notes, its just one bloody project after another.

You are too busy making sure that you see everything, that you don’t go to sleep or start thinking about what’s for dinner. Cross-referencing is minimized; phrases are listed under the main substantive noun in the phrase unless the phrase is an obvious unit (e. But having read it now, and with a critical (if biased) eye, I can honestly say that every student, professor, and intellectual needs to read it.