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Stanford University prepares for an amazing "bookless library" - San Jose Mercury News - 0 views

  • "The role of this new library is less to do with shelving and checking out books — and much more about research and discovery," said Andrew Herkovic, director of communications and development at Stanford Libraries.
  • It is only half the size of the current Engineering Library, but saves its space for people, not things. It features soft seating, "brainstorm islands," a digital bulletin board, and group event space. There are few shelves and it will feature a self-checkout system.
  • The sciences are the perfect place to test bookless libraries, librarians say. In math, online books tend to render formulas badly. And those in the humanities, arts and social sciences still embrace the serendipitous discoveries made while browsing. Johanna Drucker, UCLA professor of information studies, moreover asks: "What version of a work should be digitized as representative? Leo Tolstoy's original Russian text? Or the Maude translation? Should we digitize the sanitized version of Mark Twain's classics, or the originals?"
Barbara Lindsey

Stanford Ushers In The Age Of Bookless Libraries : NPR - 0 views

  • For years, students have had to search through volume after volume of books before finding the right formula — but no more. Josephine says that "with books being digitized and available through full text search capabilities, they can find that formula quite easily."
  • Keller expects that, eventually, there won't be any books on the shelves at all.
  • Given the nature of engineering, that actually comes in handy. Engineering uses some basic formulas but is generally a rapidly changing field — particularly in specialties such as software and bioengineering. Traditional textbooks have rarely been able to keep up.
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  • "It allows our faculty to change examples," he says," to put in new homework problems ... and lectures and things like that in almost a real-time way.
  • According to a survey by the Association of Research Libraries, American libraries are spending more of their money on electronic resources and less on books.
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