EDUCAUSE Review Articles, Libraries and Technology, and Library Facilities

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

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.

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.