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04 Sep 11
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They found that the vast majority of the collection hadn't been taken off the shelf in five years.
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librarians are looking forward to spending less time with books and more time with people.
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"the idea of actually offering more services, offering more workshops, offering more one-on-one time with students."
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In 2005, when the university realized it was running out space for its growing collection of 80,000 engineering books, administrators decided to build a new library. But instead of creating more space for books, they chose to create less.
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decrease of more than 85 percent from the old library
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librarians determined which books to keep on the shelf by looking at how frequently a book was checked out
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Traditional textbooks have rarely been able to keep up.
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According to a survey by the Association of Research Libraries, American libraries are spending more of their money on electronic resources and less on books.
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librarians are looking forward to spending less time with books and more time with people.
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offering more services, offering more workshops, offering more one-on-one time with students.
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14 Jul 10
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SJLibrary LearningIn 2005, when the university realized it was running out space for its growing collection of 80,000 engineering books, administrators decided to build a new library. But instead of creating more space for books, they chose to create less.
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Joseph KrausIn 2005, when the university realized it was running out space for its growing collection of 80,000 engineering books, administrators decided to build a new library. But instead of creating more space for books, they chose to create less.
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09 Jul 10
KPI_Library BookmarksBy Laura Sydell on Morning Edition (NPR), July 8 2010. The Engineering Library at Stanford University is decreasing their print library by over 80%, to 10,000 vols, with the vast majority of their collection (both journals and books) now digitized. For a quickly-changing field like engineering, this transition seems to make sense.
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For years, students have had to search through volume after volume of books before finding the right formula — but no more. Josephine says that "with books being digitized and available through full text search capabilities, they can find that formula quite easily."
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Keller expects that, eventually, there won't be any books on the shelves at all.
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Given the nature of engineering, that actually comes in handy. Engineering uses some basic formulas but is generally a rapidly changing field — particularly in specialties such as software and bioengineering. Traditional textbooks have rarely been able to keep up.
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"It allows our faculty to change examples," he says," to put in new homework problems ... and lectures and things like that in almost a real-time way.
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According to a survey by the Association of Research Libraries, American libraries are spending more of their money on electronic resources and less on books.
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08 Jul 10
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Shawn MillerRT @fhi_duke: RT @DukePresDPC: Stanford's Engineering Library "ushers in the age of bookless libraries." http://fb.me/CrBVCPGB
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