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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • August 4, 2005
    Anyone who has spent time (or done time) on a university campus within the last 10 years could see this coming. An article by Stefanie Olsen:

    ``Within five years at Stanford--where Google's founders hatched the idea for their company in a graduate student dormitory--officials hope to build a bookless engineering library, Keller said.

    ``Most of the plans for the engineering library are still being hashed out. But an engineering library, unlike a traditional library, particularly lends itself to going bookless because students are more concerned about finding information than about the presentation of that information. Shakespeare? Hemingway? Those books need to stay on a shelf. A treatise on Unix kernel development? Not so much.''

    Full story:
    http://news.com.com/2100-1025-5817291.html

    Will a ``digital library'' even need to be in a publicly accessible building? We've seen desktop computers in libraries, presumably for students without computers of their own. But it's rare now to find a student like that, in the US anyway. So, will libraries evolve into restrictive archives or ``print museums'' with a small server room for public access to ``digital-only'' volumes?

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