Anonymous Patron writes “The Charleston SC Post And Courier columnist Fran Hawk says the handwriting (if any such thing as handwriting remains) is on the wall for libraries.
Starting last fall, undergraduate students at the University of Texas were using a library with something missing: the books. Over the summer, the 90,000 volumes that used to live there were distributed among other university collections.
I wonder if buggy whips and wooden barrels used to be sacred. I’m concerned about fiction. Novels and computer screens don’t strike me as a winning combination.”
University of Texas…
The books are elsewhere, but that space still hasn’t been repurposed. The 24 hour computer lab has been there for ages. There’s a lot of furniture in the new space, but that’s about it.