The college library of tomorrow | CNET News.com: "Last December, Google started on a wildly ambitious and somewhat controversial plan to digitize the collections of some of the world's largest university and public libraries in an effort to make hard-to-find books accessible by the click of a mouse.
But out of the spotlight, a number of universities are already working on bookless, digital libraries that reflect a growing understanding of how today's tech-savvy students access information.
'The notion of a library as a physical collection has long ago been altered,' said Michael Keller, university librarian and director of academic information resources at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. 'It's now physical and virtual.'"
Thursday, August 04, 2005
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