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How Two Thieves Stole Thousands of Prints From University Libraries – Atlas Obscura
They almost got away with it. Source: How Two Thieves Stole Thousands of Prints From University Libraries – Atlas Obscura
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Why university libraries are tossing millions of books – CSMonitor.com
“A library without books? Not quite, but as students abandon the stacks in favor of online reference material, university libraries are unloading millions of unread volumes in a nationwide purge that has some print-loving scholars deeply unsettled.” Source: Why university libraries are tossing millions of books – CSMonitor.com See also, A Library Without Books? Universities…
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Turning the Page | News | The Harvard Crimson
While Harvard’s library digitization efforts have presented new opportunities for scholars to access and preserve sources for posterity, they have also brought their own set of challenges. Editor’s Note: Via Library Link of the Day Source: Turning the Page | News | The Harvard Crimson
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College Towns Can Be Attractive Later in Life – The New York Times
I always wished when I retired, that I would live in a college or university town — places like Chapel Hill, NC, or perhaps Charlottesville, VA — places like that. I guessed they would be in the South, where I grew up, born and bred, as we were fond of saying, back in the old…
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These are the books students at the top US colleges are required to read – Quartz
The leaders of tomorrow will be well versed in dead philosophers, according to a new database of college syllabi.The Open Syllabus Project, a collection of over 1 million curricula from English-language colleges and universities over the past 15 years, released its data on Friday (Jan. 22). Plato, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and Aristotle overwhelmingly dominate lists in…
