BY DONNA PERKOSKY AND BECKY KARPOFF, North Jersey Town News
As the holiday shopping season draws closer, there are more and more advertisements for electronics that feed our hunger for instant information. Because of these and other continued developments, the Paramus Public Library, alone and through partnerships, has utilized computer and Internet technology to offer our community the best service possible. Not only does the library offer Internet access through public personal computers, but the library also offers Wi-Fi, or wireless, for those who would like to access the Internet with their own laptop or electronic device. Online collections of reference materials and magazine and newspaper articles are a win-win for both the library and the library user. These collections obviously take up less space, allowing libraries to focus on popular borrowing collections. Library users are able to quickly and easily search and access information in full text articles that were previously accessible only on paper, microfilm or microfiche. Information seekers, once limited by the library’s magazine collection of just a few hundred titles or local newspapers, can now search thousands and thousands of magazines and academic journals or national newspapers.
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