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Digital School Library Leaves Book Stacks Behind
November 9, 2009 from NPR
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elite boarding school in Ashburnham, Mass., just spent hundreds of
thousands of dollars on renovating its library. But Cushing Academy
wasn't just redoing its walls and carpets. The school is getting rid of
the actual, physical books in favor of going digital.
And the move — thought to be the first of its kind in the country — is worrying some librarians and book lovers.
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Is the Library an Entitlement or a Privilege? | From the Bell Tower
When conversations turn to the spiraling costs of higher education,
it’s inevitable that critics will point to the occasional examples of
excess created in an effort to stay competitive in the race for new
students. Rock-climbing walls, luxury dorms, gourmet food in the dining
halls, and first-class fitness centers are all potential signs that
colleges and universities have lost touch with reality.
At least two articles I’ve read recently suggest that higher education
is in danger of becoming a tale of haves and have-nots, an industry
characterized by a small number of super elite institutions among a
vast sea of struggling competitors. America has never exactly been the
land of equality, but the divide between higher education institutions
with large wallets and those just struggling to get by is getting wider.
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As the book changes form, the library must champion its own power base—readers
By Tom Peters -- Library Journal, 11/1/2009
The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century,
reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and
librarians fear that sustained reading for learning, for work, and for
pleasure may be slowly dying out as a widespread social practice. Only
at living history farms will we see people reading. For decades the
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has been studying the reading
habits of adult Americans, issuing a series of reports with rousingly
alliterative titles such as “Reading at Risk” (July 2004) and “Reading
on the Rise” (January 2009). Sometime in the 21st century, the NEA may
need to issue the sobering final report in the series, “Reading, Rest
in Peace.”
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