Re: "Is a Bookless Library Still a Library?"

From: Mark Huppert <Mark.Huppert_at_nyob> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:02:23 +1000 To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU

Yawn! It's a computing lab in a space
formerly occupied by a collection. It's
been happening since the 1980s. 

Mark

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries 
> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of B.G. Sloan
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 July 2011 6:51 AM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [NGC4LIB] "Is a Bookless Library Still a Library?"
> 
> From Time magazine:
> 
> "We've been hearing about it for years, but the bookless library has
> finally arrived, making a beachhead on college campuses. At Drexel
> University's new Library Learning Terrace, which opened just 
> last month,
> there is nary a bound volume..."
> 
> See: http://ti.me/ooq5PI
> 
> Bernie Sloan
> 