Bernie
I would agree, no question. If the computers were to be removed from my library (which would never, ever happen, but we're talking theoretically), the traffic would drop by more than half. Students are clamoring for those computers--for most of them, it's the only reason why they come to the library.
Julie
-----Original Message-----
From: B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2_at_YAHOO.COM>
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Sent: Thu, Apr 29, 2010 5:17 pm
Subject: [NGC4LIB] If Academic Libraries Remove Computers, Will Anyone Come?
rom today's Chronicle "Wired Campus" blog:
ttp://bit.ly/dcnWwW
rticle quotes an assistant university librarian at the University of California
t Santa Barbara as saying: ""If you take the computers out of the commons, I
hink you'd see our numbers drop by half." By "numbers", he's talking about
eople visiting the physical library.
rovocative, but I don't know if I agree...
ernie Sloan
Received on Fri Apr 30 2010 - 13:40:08 EDT