Photo credit: 2016 Taylor Family Digital Library, 2016-08-08, (CU1881945) by Brown, David H.. Courtesy of Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary
The reasons for going to a library have changed in the age of Google, Wikipedia and YouTube. Libraries have responded to the newly ubiquitous digital information access environment by offering online access to their increasing amounts of digital information, and a more comprehensive range of digital services.
If your image of libraries is still of a place with endless racks of books and serenely quiet, then you need to visit one of today’s modernized libraries. I did that recently by visiting the Taylor Family Digital Library (TFDL) at The University of Calgary to experience the new world first-hand. I found that digital materials have dramatically changed how libraries operate.
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