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Computers and Coffee Bars Replace Books in Some College Libraries

Boston.com: Coffee’s on, dusty books are out at UMass library – Extras aimed at drawing students, November 25, 2006: “Libraries are clearing out books for cafés, tutoring, and career advising, according to the Association of Research Libraries. UMass and four other area colleges are moving a total of 500,000 seldom-read books into an old mountainside military bunker. The University of Texas at Austin has probably gone the farthest, removing all 90,000 books from its undergraduate library in favor of more computers and group study areas.”

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