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Volume 9, Issue 1
1 February 1988
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Collection Building
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Review Article| February 01 1988

Striking a Balance: Print vs. Nonprint in the Library

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-5592
Print ISSN: 0160-4953
© MCB UP Limited
1988
Collection Building (1988) 9 (1): 38–40.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023238

Is reading really necessary? Apparently not, at least for a part of the public which is illiterate, or for those who depend primarily on visual and oral messages to get through the day. Blaring stereo, blood and gore movies, radio and television news between advertisements, and tombstones with recordings make the point that books are obsolete.

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