I wandered in circles, around huge bookcases.
I forgot how to find books in the library.
One my classes forced me to use a medical journal in the library for a research paper, which meant that I physically had to find a source. The only problem with that was that I can’t even remember the last time I had to search for an actual book in meatspace.
The whole idea of losing a skill because you never use it definitely became a reality for me when I found myself lost in the library staring at huge medical journals, and not knowing which one had the information I needed.
The web makes everything so easy, because you just type the topic into Google then several pages pop up with the exact information that you were looking for.
I don’t even understand why my teacher made me use a physical source, because practically any information I could ever need or want is on the web. I guarantee that whatever information I used out of that medical journal I could have found on the web without getting lost and intimidated by enormous size of the journal.
When it comes to resources, it is always easier, faster and less scary to use the internet.
In my eyes cyberspace is friendlier when it comes to source searching than meatspace.
kchulick