Library Dean Answers The Question Do Libraries Still Matter

When Deborah Jakubs, trained as a Latin American historian, decided to become a librarian in 1980, “we had card catalogs. There were no laptops or desktops. There were barely [personal] computers, really.” So, has the library been co-opted by the Internet? Or is the digital world just a new frontier in what Jakubs calls “an expanding continuum of activity”? In a world of “Google fu” and search engine optimization, is everyone a reference desk? Are librarians becoming irrelevant or more important than ever? And what about libraries as a physical space? We had plenty of questions. So we decided to ask Duke’s top librarian. That might have been a clue. Read more at:
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