EDUCAUSE Review Articles, Libraries and Technology, and Library Facilities

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If the Academic Library Ceased to Exist, Would We Have to Invent It?

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Title:If the Academic Library Ceased to Exist, Would We Have to Invent It? (ID: ERM0714)
Author(s):Lynn Scott Cochrane (Denison University)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (2007)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

The author provides a glimpse into the future without academic libraries and how that will affect the students and faculty.

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Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination

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Title:Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination (ID: ERM0610)
Author(s):Jerry D. Campbell (Claremont School of Theology)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (2006)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

Deep into the digital age, academic libraries have relinquished much of their fundamental and sustaining role. For most people, including academicians, the library—in its most basic function as a source of information—has become overwhelmingly a virtual destination.

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Net Generation Students and Libraries

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Title:Net Generation Students and Libraries (ID: ERM0523)
Author(s):Joan K. Lippincott (Coalition for Networked Information)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (2005)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:

Technology has led to more modernization than transformation of the library, resulting in some major disconnects between many of today's academic libraries and Net Gen students.

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