If Academic Libraries Remove Computers, Will Anyone Come?

From: B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:17:29 -0700
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 
From today's Chronicle "Wired Campus" blog:
 
http://bit.ly/dcnWwW
 
Article quotes an assistant university librarian at the University of California at Santa Barbara as saying: ""If you take the computers out of the commons, I think you'd see our numbers drop by half." By "numbers", he's talking about people visiting the physical library.
 
Provocative, but I don't know if I agree...
 
Bernie Sloan


      
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