There are books and magazines she still needs from a library now and then, but the Web remains her source of choice. Everyone uses it. I don't see anybody checking out books anymore. Well, hardly anybody. But sometimes she finds books the easier way of securing reliable information.
Books make it easier to get people's points of view.
On the Internet you sometimes just get junk. The Web clearly has revolutionized survival tactics for students of all ages. In addition to linking users with myriad Net resources, the elder Drudge also provides an Ask Bob e-mail service, in which he answers research queries with useful Web resources that had eluded the student. Because, said Novine Schlapfer, convenience isn't everything. Schlapfer, technology coordinator at La Pietra, said students have leaped on the Web without training.