This little item, one of two today picked up from the University Business Newsletter, makes it clear that what libraries of the future will offer is not access to a stack of dusty books but rather a social atmosphere in which to read and research. "Melody Kelly, an associate dean at North Texas, admits she blanched at when idea of using a Starbucks to attract students to the campus library was broached earlier this year. 'We've been taking Cokes away from them for years,' she protested. But Kelly also acknowledged that students on the suburban Dallas campus had long flouted the library's no-food policy." From user-hostile to user-friendly design. What a concept! But why did it have to be Starbucks? Now if they put a Tim Hortons and a wireless LAN in there - why that might even get me back into the library!
Today: 7 Total: 23 [Direct link] [Share]
