A New Answer for a New Age
A New Answer for a New Age
3 PagesA New Answer for a New Age Building Successfully for the University of Chicago’s New Research Library In the last several years, an issue has arisen around the topic of libraries and their usefulness. The answer isn’t always to digitize every piece of printed material within the library’s walls. Sociological studies have shown that researchers who have access to digitized media also spend more time with the original print items. Such is the case at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois (USA). At a time when many universities were turning their collections over to the Google Books mass digitization project, the University of Chicago opted to build a radical new archive-and-retrieval system for researchers who wanted to touch and feel the romance of the original print
