Making Libraries Nonexistant!?

Digital Libraries: Shifting the Landscape by Glen Bull and Martha Sites

This article is about digitalizing books and essentially making books obsolete by just showing them online or in digital format. This has already been happening with google as they have about 50,000 books that are available to read online. There are also “readers” available that you can view books on in digital format. There are applications for it on iphone and ipod. This phenomenon of making books digital has already begun and it’s going to continue growing until all books are available digitally. I think that this is an amazing concept in our world of growing technology. Instead of having to go to a library and find a certain book, wouldn’t it be easier just to look the book up on the internet or have a tool right in your hands to automatically find a book for you? I think that it’s very convenient and definitely a step in the right direction for technology. The article also talks about how a reader has a built in speech mode where it will read the book out loud. This can be helpful for children who have problems with sight or with reading. It can help with pronunciation if a student needs help with big words or something like that. I really liked this article because I think digitalizing books will do amazing things for students.

I hope that by the time I become a teacher all books will be digitalized. I think it will be a lot easier inside the classroom if we don't have to deal with textbooks or magazines or journals. If a student has a reader, everything will be easily accessible and neatly organized for them whenever they need it. It would be easier also if they don't have to carry around a ton of books to and from school, all they would need is to carry around one item that isn't as heavy. I hope that when I have my classroom I will be able to teach my students through digital books or that they will all be able to have a reader for themselves or at least have access to one. With every article I read, I get more and more excited to become a teacher and I think of the amazing things I will be able to do with my students when it comes to technology. I get discouraged when I think about how much money a school would have to spend to give us some of these new technologies, but I really believe it would be a great investment.