id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15337 HARDESTY, LARRY The Age of Information, the Age of Foolishness 2000-01-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 2169 181 49 Access to electronic information is now so ubiquitous in higher education that this past summer an officer of a regional accreditation association sent a letter to academic library directors in his region posing this question: Is a li­ brary an absolute prerequi­ site for a degree-granting institution of higher education, or is it, instead, an in­ dicator of some increasing level of qual­ ity above an accepted minimum? Within the past few months, I have had several commu­ nications with academic library directors whose presidents or deans seek to remove or reduce elements of faculty status for the librarians. cache/crl-15337.pdf txt/crl-15337.txt