Shelve Under "E" for Electronic

[Sloan, Bernie]

Interesting article in the April 1 Chronicle of Higher Education about
the library at the University of California's new Merced campus. Looks
like they plan to rely heavily on resources from the California Digital
Library.

A couple of quotes:

"With its focus on remote collections and digital resources, Merced's
Leo and Dottie Kolligian Library will either be a new model for research
libraries or a brief experiment for a generation dazzled by the
Internet."

Duane Webster, executive director of ARL is quoted as saying "Rethinking
the character and nature of the research library in the electronic age
is a wonderfully exciting opportunity for a place like Merced because
they aren't carrying the baggage of legacy collections."

Here's the citation:

Carlson, Scott. Shelve Under "E" for Electronic. Chronicle of Higher
Education, 51(50), A-24. April 1, 2005. (Available online to subscribers
only).

Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO
University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
Champaign, IL  61820

Phone: (217) 333-4895
Fax:   (217) 265-0454
E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu