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Monday, November 12, 2001
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i12/12a03501.htm THE DESERTED LIBRARY - As Students Work Online, Reading Rooms Empty Out -- Leading Some Campuses to Add Starbucks By SCOTT CARLSON Augusta, Ga. University libraries bring to mind undergraduates rooting through dusty stacks or sitting in reading rooms with their noses buried in tomes. These days, however, more and more students are entering libraries not through turnstiles but through phone lines and fiber-optic cables. Take Jennifer L. Howard, an English major at Augusta State University. Now a junior, she managed to get through two years of college -- and onto the honor roll -- without ever borrowing a book from the library. "I'm a junior, and I checked out a book for the first time last week," says Ms. Howard, who borrowed Ursula K. Le Guin's novel The Left Hand of Darkness for a report on science fiction....
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