College Libraries Keeping Up As Technology Evolves, Institutions Try to Adapt

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Despite the technology age - when most college students have Internet access in residence halls, apartments and elsewhere - on- campus libraries aren't going the way of dinosaurs.

The University of Southern Indiana's two-year-old David L. Rice Library buzzed with activity on a recent afternoon. Students studied in groups, relaxed in lounge chairs with coffee and a book or, more likely, were transfixed by computer screens.

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College Libraries Keeping Up As Technology Evolves, Institutions Try to Adapt

In 2007, the library's first full year of operation, about 300,000 people came through the doors.

The number grew to 320,000 in 2008, and the daily volume is approaching 1,00...

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