Digital Resources Quotes

In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.

Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.

I am a public library

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

When I was first elected to the Colorado State Board of Education in 2000, we had to carry a big binder filled with hundreds of pages to every meeting. By 2004, the State Board had gone paperless. We even persuaded the less-tech-savvy members to use laptops to pull up their information during meetings.

On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

The Internet serves as a channel of endless information through which individuals now access the news, employment opportunities, education, entertainment, etc.

Libraries have a PR problem - or at least that's what they call it when no one under the age of 40 walks through the door. To bring in a younger crowd, the paper pushers have turned to tech to bring in the public. DVDs, CDs and, yes, even videogames are hitting the shelves of your local library.

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of 'stuff' but its value and readability is often questionable. 'Stuff' doesn't give you a competitive edge, high-quality related information does.

I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with that arrangement, inreality it creates a potentially dangerous situation that I call "the other digital divide."

Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.

All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.

One of the things that has benefited me in my career is being part of the new age of technology: the ability growing up to get on the Internet at friends' houses and go on YouTube and watch videos of great players.

The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website.

We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet.

It is our goal to provide full public access to as many files as we possibly can.

I was interested in the questions that come up when the Internet gives you access not just to JSTOR libraries and to digital information, but also to things that are live and dynamic and organic in some way.

Material that might be illegal is such a minuscule part of what is available that we have to remember and I mean not only librarians but everybody has to remember not to let it overshadow the incredible wealth of information that is available in this medium.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.