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Wednesday, July 10, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i44/44a03101.htm Do Libraries Really Need Books? Controversial projects at some colleges move the printed word out of sight SCOTT CARLSON "I love libraries. Books talk to me," says Madeline M. Wake, dean of the nursing school at Marquette University, who will become provost in August. She likes to walk through the stacks and pull out books that catch her eye. "As I was growing in my education, that's the way I processed stuff," she says. But her students learn differently. They turn to the Internet instead of books. So she's looking forward to a new library at Marquette, to be stocked with computers and digital-media centers. She hopes that they will help teach a generation raised more on cathode-ray tubes than printing presses.....
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