> Or, yes, as Tim seems to suggest, and like many academic libraries do, you can ignore the needs of students and focus solely on faculty (and MAYBE grad students, a little).
The needs of students to find a place for young people to socialize
and study—the cited motive here—can be satisfied in any number of
buildings on campus and off. If a library does not feel its spaces
should relate to finding and accessing information, it should stop
hiring LIS grads and turn to the cruise ship industry for help.
> It would be nice if we could have all the space we want for free.
It would be nice if libraries used the spaces built for libraries as libraries.
> Given that we're talking about ~600,000 items
I'm sure Widener's circulation rate is WAY over 40%. That's why
Harvard is a worse institution.
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Received on Thu Sep 30 2010 - 23:07:27 EDT