There is far too much reliance on printing out mumbo jumbo as a substitute for effective, preemptive regulation.
Over the last ten years the move towards less reliance on print media has raised challenges for the industry.
Bharat says that "most newspapers have stuck to a reliance on print format" and, with few exceptions, have not endeavoured to embrace the internet fully.
However, many librarians are still reluctant to accept that digital preservation practices may enable us to end our reliance on print.
"The big difference is the move from reliance on print-based to online learning, which offers students much more possibility both to access a range of resources and to work together with other students online," says Dr Mary Lea, chair of the Open University's postgraduate certificate in academic practice, which includes a section on design of learning environments.
Steeped in the study of institutions, he understands the value, and the thrill, of delving into them as they undergo a sea change, and no place could be richer or stranger than a library that is swept up in the electronic age, with its dissolving reliance on print.
According to Gallup, "...heavy reliance on print is exclusive to seniors, among whom 18% cite newspapers or other print publications as their main source of news.
But, according to testimony by Lauren K. Saunders, a lawyer for the National Consumer Law Center, they are often trumped by "a deregulatory bias and faith in the free market, an antipathy to taking significant consumer protection measures that are opposed by the industry, an excessive reliance on fine print disclosures when the agencies have acted and just plain inertia".
The belief in and practice of voodoo economics, extraordinary reliance on the printing press, and the intentional use of deceptive measures of our nation's fiscal obligations is, at its root, childish, selfish, and self-serving behavior by people who don't deserve the title of "adult".
