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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: Academic libraries empty stacks for online centers
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005
From: Dennis McClendon <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
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>one has to wonder if
>a complete callousness for the future happens to result from supposedly
>'practical' decisions in the present.

Though the story raised my eyebrows as well, I should point out that
what's being converted at UT is the "Undergraduate Library," which
had a very basic collection of fewer than 100,000 volumes that were
increasingly irrelevant to the way undergraduates needed to study.
Even when I was a grad student at UT in the early 80s, the UGL was
mostly a study center rather than a place to do research.

UT still has a serious library (Perry-Castaneda) a few hundred feet
away, plus the large research collections of the Harry Ransom Center.



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