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A library without books

04 Nov

The inaugural class of 550 students with scholarships offered to attend a newly accredited public university, was BibliotecaVirtualannounced a fully digital library with 135 000 e-books available to be read on e-reader, tablet or laptop.

Completely libraries without books is still a rarity in US colleges, but the University of Lakeland, Florida, recently built a dreary stretch of road between Tampa and Orlando, made ​​at the Polytechnic University of Florida, is a bold building, with architecture made by architect Spaniard Santiago Calatrava.

The director of the university librarie´s Kathyrin Miller said: “It’s an important decision to boldly go forward without books,” sempilhas to organize books, library staff beyond the main service which is the reference should guide students in reursos mentoring and training them for the management of digital materials.

While the paperless library is not fully available, students will be discouraged from using other printers, Miller said, and he will continue buying traditional textbooks or digital texts when available.
Requesting books the old fashioned way can be made in one of 11 public universities exist in Florida, from the system that is integrated between these libraries.

The books of the Florida Polytechnic are budgeted at $ 60,000 for the purchase of securities by means of software that will allow students a free browsing with one or two clicks, and the book will be passed on to the student by digital means.