New Stanford Engineering Library pares paper books of 80,000 to 10,000

Stanford's new engineering library is 7 / 8 of his paper books in favour of the e-book replacement get rid of, NPR reports. The change is out to store his collection periodicals, transition from print to digital editions and the library due to a combination of engineering, from space.

Decide you which 10,000 books made the cut checks to see Stanford librarians check out records which books checked out most wurden.Wie turned out, that the vast majority of books from the library was checked out in five years had.

The e-book replacement time to come the traditional print textbooks also side effect, given the rapidly changing nature of the field engineering.Die who often partially are deprecated.This change Stanford to keep his textbooks and examples of current will allow, explains the Dean of the Stanford's School of engineering.

And other libraries can soon follow suit, both at Stanford University and anderswo.Stanford Library Director Michael Keller sees a trend in the work in the way today's students with libraries and technology interact.

"Write your papers online and read article online and many, many, many of you read chapters and books online," he says."I can see behaviors in this population of students that clearly specify where this is all going."

NPR reported that while some libraries get rid of as many printed books are many American Libraries begin to shift funding of paper books and electronic resources.

(Found via Gizmodo.)

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