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Originally Posted by Mindy
Similarly, when you had over 100 students needing access to a book the library only had 3 copies of it was chaos! The librarians had to make copies of the pertinent reading to lend out to prevent all-out war! What a waste of paper!
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They are making copies? Oh well, seems like my library is a bit strange. If the books are out (and mind you: 3 books for 100 students is pretty normal) they are out. Bad luck.
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Having access to a digital format would definitely help in those situations so that a) when you DO get a book, you don't have someone else's comments inconsiderately scrawled all over it and b) you have instant access to the material you need and the option of flipping through musty old pages at your leisure! Would definitely have found it useful when I was at Uni,
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Yes. And I wouldnt strech my back - I mean: How often would you need 5 or 6 of those really heavy books for working? It is so much more comfortable to just have them on one SD-Card...
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though I would have never, ever, ever, ever done away with the library!
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Oh well - give me a nice reading room at the campus and access to an electronic version of the library - and you can keep your library all for yourself
Really - what is a library different from
a) an archive of books (see e-books and a fileserver)
b) a quite reading and working room
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