The phone book is a big hunk of tree. But in an age when you can look up many names and most businesses on Google and other Web sites, does it get used?
That is the question, on a micro level, that administrators at Murray State University are grappling with, according to The Murray State News. The campus phone book is 100 pages, and the university prints 4,500 a year.
“That is a lot of paper,” Linda Miller, the university’s chief information officer, told the News. “The contract of renewing the phonebooks is up, and we are deciding whether to renew the contract or cancel the paperback versions all together.”
The university has found that while residential students do not use the phone books, student workers do. —Scott Carlson
