Ya just can’t do any better than an article with the word shushing right in the title. There’s no ‘shushing’ in college libraries comes from the Palm Beach Post and takes a look at the “Barnes and Noble-ization” of the traditional book-lined bunker.
New teaching styles that promote collaboration have led to fewer cubicle-style study seats and more technology-equipped rooms where groups of students can put together power-point presentations and turn their term papers into multimedia projects.
Gone are the head-high cabinets of card catalogs and signs requesting “Quiet.” Discussion is encouraged in new university libraries.
Books haven’t been replaced yet, but a plethora of online publications means there are fewer uses for the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature and less huffing it to the fourth floor to find a magazine.
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