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crl-15819	Cheney, Debora; Knapp, Jeffrey; Alan, Robert; Czapla, Pamela	Convergence in the Library’s News Room: Enhancing News Collections and Services in Academic Libraries	2006	23	.pdf	application/pdf	12487	522	50	Of course, the trends affecting use of university libraries’ newspaper collec- tions were part of larger trends affecting newspaper readership, which is down overall as television news, newspaper Web sites, and, increasingly, blogs are used more frequently for news.12 Today, search engines designed to scoop up and present the news have changed the way we read the news. Most germane was her treatment of why librar- ies should have televisions when most people have them at home and stressed that no ma er how ubiquitous televisions may be, not everyone can access them during the day or can afford the costs of subscribing to the many international channels.22 One well-documented installation of a television in a library focusing solely on news programming is located at the Kapiolani Community College Library (Honolulu, Hawaii).23 Terry Webb dis- cusses the importance of the “channels of information” offered by television, the importance of providing television news services in libraries in light of converging media technologies, and the arrangement of the news sources in the NewsWare Al- cove according to their chronology in the news cycle.24 Webb also makes clear the distinction between simply placing a tele- vision in a public place and focusing on television news.	cache/crl-15819.pdf	txt/crl-15819.txt