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Monday, November 09, 2009
Online Learning: Bookless Libraries? - Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed
What started as a debate over whether brick-and-mortar libraries would survive much further into the 21st century turned into an existential discussion on the definition of libraries, as a gathering of technologists here at the 2009 Educause Conference pondered the evolution of one of higher education’s oldest institutions. “Let’s face it: the library, as a place, is dead,” said Suzanne E. Thorin, dean of libraries at Syracuse University. “Kaput. Finito. And we need to move on to a new concept of what the academic library is.” “People,” she told the audience, of whom many were librarians, “the world has changed, and so have your students, and so have your faculty!”
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