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Librarians' "new normal" includes pain points

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: DENVER—As snow fell from gray skies on Tuesday, higher education professionals, publishers, librarians, information technologists, government researchers and others met this week for the Coalition for Networked Information spring membership meeting. But that use plummeted more than 60 percent during each of the last two years.

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5 High Tech Solutions that Enable High Touch Campus Experiences

University Business

Researcher and author Hana Ben-Shabat discusses this in her book, Gen Z 360. Library Services: An increasing number of automated and self-service solutions have hit the market to help manage library resources such as checking out books and devices.

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Backlash as a university says its library will be 'all digital'

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Articles with titles such as “ Academic Libraries Without Print ” may perpetuate fear that some institutions seek to reduce print to zero. But this and other articles focus on library services “centered on” e-resources but not to the exclusion of print. ” Besides, he suggests, context matters.

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