Stanford creating bookless library
JUN 01, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024377
San Jose Mercury News : Stanford University is creating a new “bookless library” from two existing libraries—physics and engineering. The new facility will have a completely electronic reference desk, Kindle 2 e-readers, soft seating, a self-checkout system, and group event space. At the user’s fingertips will be 28 online databases and more than 12 000 scientific journals. One reason for going electronic is space: Stanford’s campus is running out of room, with nowhere to expand. The new combined library will be half the size of one of its forebears. Another reason is that in the sciences many of the journals and reference works have already been digitized, so users are already accessing them electronically.
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