After 244 Years, Encyclopædia Britannica Stops the Presses

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Back in 2001 or so I was taking Library Science classes and learning the finer points of old school reference work, using seriously thick tomes to look up simple things like what films Marilyn Monroe was in, then having to switch to different volumes to follow the career of any of her costars, and using entirely different books to look up detail on the films themselves...

That's too bad, when I was in library school ('96-'98) we did learn that stuff, to a degree, but mostly it was all about the wonderful new world of data availability ("compare and contrast this weird new thing called "google" with DIALOG" was a paper I had to write).

As I've said, it was becoming a librarian that made me indifferent to the book. I was just interested in how best to store, structure, and retrieve information.