Remember When Journals Were Up To Date

Remember back in the day when journals were the most up to date information that you could get.  I’ve been cleaning up my Google reader and I find that when I’m going through posts that I skip right over the journals.

*gasp*

I know I’m a librarian and I’m supposed to understand the value of peer reviewed literature, but here is what I don’t value…the slow moving peer review committees.  Honestly most of the articles are completely out of date or complete fodder.  For example in my reader I saw an article: How and why do college students use Wikipedia? Now no offense to the author but here is the reason: the information is easily accessible and the information libraries provide is not.  Kind of like how I feel about journals.

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