"Old and Worn Out Question" from 1883 Is Still All Too Familiar
David Null, our UW–Madison University Archivist shared this familiar sounding passage from the University Press dated Jan. 27, 1883:
Why don’t students make more use of the libraries? This is an old and worn-out question, but for all that is of practical interest to us. …Comparatively few of the students know the opportunities afforded them by our University library; they don’t even know what periodicals and papers are at their disposal.If this was an “old and worn-out question” 123 years ago, what does that make it today?