As independent schools reconfigure their libraries to support more digital materials and learning habits, some college libraries are nearly doing away with books altogether. At the University of California Berkeley, two floors of the remodeled undergraduate library have no books. Instead, they have spaces for collaborating, studying and recharging, including glass walls that can be written on and bright furniture that can be moved. Overall, the school removed 135,000 physical books from the library, shipping most to other locations. Farther south at UC Santa Cruz, the removal of 80,000 books upset many faculty, but the university librarian said that they had been used infrequently and could be accessed online or through interlibrary loans. "Nothing has left the scholarly record," said a spokesperson for the campus.
Los Angeles Times (04/19/17)
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