On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Karen Coyle<lists_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
> 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.
But remember -- Al Gore only invented the Internet in 1999, and a lot
has changed in the digital universe in these intervening years ...
Cab Vinton, Director
Sanbornton Public Library
Sanbornton, NH
Received on Tue Sep 08 2009 - 13:09:12 EDT