The Chronicle of Higher Education

A University Library Painfully Cancels Hundreds of Journal Subscriptions

By SCOTT CARLSON

Boone, N.C.

A drive through the campus of Appalachian State University gives the impression of flush times. Construction projects, financed through bonds from fatter years, eat their way into the wooded hills. Among the planned projects is a library. It will have room for 15 years' worth of acquisitions and will sit on what is now just...

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