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ABC News Shuttering In-House Library in Favor of 'Digital Research
Facility'; Looking To Donate Print Materials
ABC News Shuttering In-House Library in Favor of 'Digital Research
Facility'; Looking To Donate Print Materials
By Felix Gillette
June 4, 2009 | 2:36 p.m
The New York Observer
<http://www.observer.com/2009/media/abc-news-shuttering-house-library-
favor-digital-research-facility-looking-donate-print-ma>
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Today, yet another bricks-and-mortar media bibliothque fell victim to the
digital age.
This afternoon, in an email to his staff, David Westin, the president of
ABC News, announced that ABC News will be converting its existing research
library on the second floor of its 47th street building into a smaller,
more cyber-focused "Digital Research Facility."
"Our extensive, hard copy library filled with periodicals and other
materials is no longer necessary in the digital age," wrote Mr. Westin.
"The time has come to re-shape that library to reflect todays world."
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>From A Reader Comment:
If Mr. Gillette would visit the Research Center, he would discover a group
of highly trained information specialists who spend the majority of their
work hours expertly and cost-efficiently utilizing databases on the web;
working iteratively through sources and with reporters and producers all
along the story development process, and perhaps occaisionally checking a
print source along the way as appropriate.
This ABC corporate produced meme that they are acting responsibly to
transition into the digital age from an imagined book-filled mausoleum is
gross justification for irresponsible cost-cutting. And Mr. Gillette does
a great disservice to Observers readers by perpetuating that meme, and not
fully reporting the real story.
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The entire article and all the reader comments may be read at the URL
above.
One can hope that the new virtual library at ABC will include access to
the Disney Channel so that substitution for the books and journals can at
least include some good Mickey Mouse cartoons.
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