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Subject: Academic libraries empty stacks for online centers
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005
From: Edward James Redmond <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps-L

Full story here:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0823/p01s05-legn.html

Academic libraries empty stacks for online centers
By Kris Axtman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

AUSTIN, TEXAS - When students wander into the former University of Texas
undergraduate library this fall, gone will be the "Quiet Please" signs,
the ban on cheeseburgers or sodas, the sight of solemn librarians
restocking books.

The fact is, there will be no more books to restock. The UT library is
undergoing a radical change, becoming more of a social gathering place
more akin to a coffeehouse than a dusty, whisper-filled hall of records.
And to make that happen, the undergraduate collection of books had to go.


Edward James Redmond <[log in to unmask]>
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Geography and Map Division
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