The reading article for this week deals with how libraries have to become very adaptive to the change in pace of students wanting research. The article outlined how students in today’s libraries want easy information, like Google Searches and other easy to access information. In the article it talks about how students get frustrated with searching the web for scholarly articles, and they ask the librarian to “Google-ize” the research for them, meaning to make the search easier. A researcher from Carnegie Mellon University described the idea of infobesity, he coined this term because of all the horrible information on the web is like eating McDonalds fast food all the time. The article goes into further detail about how students don’t want to put in the time to search threw library catalogs, books, and other faulty and old systems to find information.
I think this is a good article because it has some useful information about how libraries need to evolve. With the idea of google-ising, I don’t think it is the key for libraries, I believe that you should have to put in the time to do the research to write a scholarly article. I also think that the idea of infobesity is a good idea, there is a lot of useless information on the internet, and there are so many people that rely on this information to write research articles because they don’t want to put in the time to use scholarly articles. I also believe though that it is imperative for libraries to revise the way that you look for information, because the nature of computers and the way information is passed from person to person. Overall I believe this was a good read.
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