"There are rolling hills and ivy-covered brick buildings. There are small classrooms, high-tech labs, and well-manicured fields. There’s even a clock tower with a massive bell that rings for special events.
Cushing Academy has all the hallmarks of a New England prep school, with one exception.
This year, after having amassed a collection of more than 20,000 books, officials at the pristine campus about 90 minutes west of Boston have decided the 144-year-old school no longer needs a traditional library. The academy’s administrators have decided to discard all their books and have given away half of what stocked their sprawling stacks -- the classics, novels, poetry, biographies, tomes on every subject from the humanities to the sciences. The future, they believe, is digital."
Read the entire article Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books.
[via boston.com]
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Harvard Stops Printing Catalogs and Handbooks, Puts Everything on the Web
Harvard University will stop printing its course catalogs, faculty and student handbooks, and results of course evaluations after this semester, The Harvard Crimson reports. Starting in the fall, these guides will be published exclusively on the Web.
The move will save “tens of thousands of dollars,” according to The Crimson. In addition, the course catalog “is significantly out-of-date before the first copy rolls off the presses,” admits Barry Kane, registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in an unusually candid comment.
The online system will be much more dynamic, said Jay M. Harris, Harvard’s dean of undergraduate education, and will give students access to analysis of course evaluations and data not offered in print versions.
[via Chronicle of Higher Education]
The move will save “tens of thousands of dollars,” according to The Crimson. In addition, the course catalog “is significantly out-of-date before the first copy rolls off the presses,” admits Barry Kane, registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in an unusually candid comment.
The online system will be much more dynamic, said Jay M. Harris, Harvard’s dean of undergraduate education, and will give students access to analysis of course evaluations and data not offered in print versions.
[via Chronicle of Higher Education]
