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In reply to the discussion: Ok, age check, who remembers? [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)As you and I know, "we can find everything we need online" simply isn't true.
Beyond that, there's an advantage to knowing more than one way to do it. I began my legal career in the early days of online research, so I learned how to use the print sources and how to use the computer. Even now, I'll be sitting at the law library, at a computer terminal that can access everything I need, but I'll occasionally get up and walk 50 feet to where I know the right book is. The reason is that, with my training and experience, there are some questions that I can answer much more quickly by using the Gutenberg media.
Admittedly, some of those students you encountered are probably a bit faster with the online work than I am -- but they're paying a price for their disdain for noncomputerized sources.