Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 12:00 a.m.

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In tech age, a case for books

Contributing Reporter
Published Monday, November 17, 2008

Even though many students use Google more than physical books, a series of panel discussions on Friday concluded that a university press still matters.

The centennial celebration of the Yale University Press culminated with three panel discussions on “Why Books Still Matter” — a collaboration of the Press, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Whitney Humanities Center — in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium. In front of an audience of more than 100 people, the panels explored the necessity of books in today’s age of information, in which technology has...

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