Library Construction Focuses More on Books Than on Technology, Study Finds

Technology may have revolutionized the way that libraries deliver documents, articles, and other information to users, enabling students to get materials outside of library walls. But a new report says information technology has not discouraged college-library construction in the past decade -- as some had predicted it would -- nor was accommodating technology the primary concern of librarians, architects, and other planners who built or renovated libraries in the 1990s.

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