[11744] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
The New Research Library
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sloan, Bernie)
Thu Oct 16 20:38:37 1997
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 13:07:24 -0500
From: "Sloan, Bernie" <bernies@uillinois.edu>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Just wanted to call your attention to an article in the
October 17 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The article is called "In the New Model of the Research
Library, Unused Books are Out, Computers Are In," and
is in the Information Technology section, pages A27-28.
A couple of quotes:
"At the end of a narrow, tree-lined road 30 miles from
its campus, Harvard University runs a model library
for the information age: a book warehouse"
and later in the article:
"Librarians select the least-used materials for storage
in these warehouses, leaving more room in traditional
spaces for the kinds of services that modern library
users demand: computer stations, mutlimedia classrooms,
coffee bars."
Bernie Sloan
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
University of Illinois Office for Planning & Budgeting
338 Henry Administration Building
506 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: 217-333-4895
Fax: 217-333-6355
e-mail: bernies@uillinois.edu
