Great exaggerations! Death of libraries

Author

Gulcin CRIBB, Singapore Management UniversityFollow

Publication Type

Blog Post

Publication Date

1-2018

Abstract

Libraries these days are built digital brick by digital brick – brick being the metaphor for digital books, journals, articles, objects, media, digital infrastructure, networks, apps, data, and analytics. The growth of print collections has been declining considerably in recent times. Singapore Management University (SMU) Libraries spends over 90% of its funds on digital collections, 80% of its collections are digital.

Discipline

Library and Information Science

Publisher

IFLA

Citation

CRIBB, Gulcin. Great exaggerations! Death of libraries. (2018).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/library_research/107

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http://blogs.ifla.org/arl/2018/01/25/great-exaggerations-death-of-libraries/