“University libraries around the world are seeing precipitous declines in the use of the books on their shelves”: Dan Cohen, Vice Provost for Information Collaboration at Northeastern University, writing in The Atlantic. Both faculty and students, Cohen writes, are making less use of printed books.
See also Bryan Garner on the trend of “deaccessioning” books from university libraries (ABA Journal).
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