The professor is discussing some drawbacks of digital libraries, which are access limitation, time-consuming and discouraging author.
He first explains that a large number of people who are not rich in computer are less accessable to digital libraries. Moreover, this fact would lead to concentration of information only to people who have good condition in computer setting. Thus, digital libraries exacerbate the lopsided condition in informaition access, which is in direct opposition to the reading passage.
Next, people should spend more time on finding only small piece of information like quates because there is overwhelming information in the internet and digital world. This finding opposes that assertion in the reading passage, which claims that since people do not have to go to library and search books in the library, they can save their own time.
on top of that, the professor argues that increasing digital libraries will make less intellectual world. If people can reach some information copyrighted by a specific author by means of the digital library, they will not definitely buy the books by the author. This results in decrease of writing books which very hardworking. Consequently, the digital library make less knowledgeable world, contrary to the reading passage. |