• TacoButtPlug
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    8 months ago

    Those still exist at this time.

    It’s more like they will miss fully having to rely on the library and their family owning a collection of encyclopedia because no internet.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      8 months ago

      There are still libraries that haven’t computerized their catalog yet? I’m not sure I believe that.

      (To be clear, I’m saying kids won’t get the experience of specifically flipping through paper cards to find books, not the experience of using the library in general.)

    • pingveno@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      8 months ago

      I remember my family having an outdated encyclopedia because my aunt, a librarian, would hand off the old copy the library was trying to get rid of. I don’t think I looked at them more than a few times, and even then it was only vaguely useful. Good riddance, online reference material is so much better.