NY Times: College Libraries Set Aside Books in a Digital Age

[Sloan, Bernie]

Blumenthal, Ralph. College Libraries Set Aside Books in a Digital Age.
New York Times. May 14, 2005.

"Students attending the University of Texas at Austin will find
something missing from the undergraduate library this fall. Books. By
mid-July, the university says, almost all of the library's 90,000
volumes will be dispersed to other university collections to clear space
for a 24-hour electronic information commons, a fast-spreading
phenomenon that is transforming research and study on campuses around
the country."

The article is available at (may require free registration):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/14/education/14library.html 

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