> On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 15:49:00 -0400, Janet Schrader
> <jschrader_at_CWMARS.ORG> wrote:
>
>> Similar article in the Boston Globe about a private prep school
>> discarding all books and making the "library" totally digital.
>>
>> http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/04/a_library_without_the_books/
When the California State University at Monterey opened, they had
decided their library would be all digital. This was about 10 years
ago or more, so perhaps they jumped the gun. The end result, however,
was that the students flooded the surrounding public libraries,
putting a lot of demand on them that they were not equipped to meet.
The school now has a physical library with physical items, and I think
that the pressure from the public libraries served as proof that the
students needed physical items.
kc
Received on Tue Sep 08 2009 - 12:45:57 EDT