US: Stanford prepares for bookless libraries

One chapter is closing - and another is opening - as Stanford University moves toward the creation of its first 'bookless library', writes Lisa M Krieger for the Mercury News.

Box by box, decades of past scholarship are being packed up and emptied from two old libraries, Physics and Engineering, to make way for the future: a smaller but more efficient and largely electronic library that can accommodate the vast, expanding and interrelated literature of physics, computer science and engineering.

"The role of this new library is less to do with shelving and checking out books - and much more about research and discovery," said Andrew Herkovic, director of communications and development at Stanford Libraries.
Full report on the Mercury News site