id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crln-7541 Alsop, Justine Losing our minds: The impact of technology on reading and reflection 2005-12-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1137 57 66 The recent fl ourish of research on stress and its subsequent effects on students and faculty should encourage reflection on our part and perhaps a reas- sessment in the ways in which we provide library instruction and how we interact with our patrons. Quick scan- ning has replaced the slower, contemplative mode of reading.2 Amanda Cain’s 2002 article entitled “Archimedes, reading, and the suste- nance of academic research culture in library instruction” raised essential points about the importance of reading books as a “powerful psychic framework for scholarship.”3 cache/crln-7541.pdf txt/crln-7541.txt