ARE you sitting comfortably? Here is the Story of the Decline of the Academic Library.
Once Upon A Time libraries were the gatekeepers to most of the information students and academics needed. Books had the information and libraries had the books. Then one day the Big Bad Internet came along and made hundreds of millions of books, articles and manuscripts freely available to anyone with access to a computer. The library was no longer the only game in town. …
ut like all good stories, there is a twist. Something strange is happening in Oxford. In 2014, the reading rooms of the University’s Bodleian Library were at their busiest since records began. And on 21 March it will open theWeston Library, an £80 million refurbishment of a Grade II listed building in the centre of Oxford. How has the Big Bad Internet not blown the house down? …
Schöner Artikel über die neue Weston Library der Oxford University: https://medium.com/@Oxford_University/how-do-you-design-the-library-of-the-future-22d9344e40f7