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Saturday, May 8, 2010

Critical Assets: Academic Libraries

"Critical Assets: Academic Libraries, a View from the Administration Building." Library Journal / Barbara Fister.
New York: Library Journal Online, May 1st 2010.
"For many observers, these predictions sound...like assumptions that might be made by bean-counters in the administration building who haven't set foot in a library in decades and think students don't need books, now that they can get everything on the Internet for free. As higher education confronts shortages in hungry times, will officials who previously viewed the library as a sacred cow think it's time for a barbecue?"