Library books go the way of the dodo

The venerable boarding school west of Boston — the first in the United States to admit both boys and girls — last summer undertook another first: It began getting rid of most of the library’s books. In their place: a fully digital collection.
Library watchers say it could be the first school library, public or private, to forsake
ink-and-paper in favor of e-books. It also represents the first time that a school has placed its students’ intellectual lives so fully into the hands of a few online publishers and electronic-device makers.

November 2, 2009 by Uncategorized 0

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