U-M opens a medical library without books

Technology is helping to reinvent the way we interact with libraries. U-M's Taubman Health Sciences Library just under went a a $55 million overhaul… and major rethinking of how it functions best. Excerpt: "Hundreds of thousands of books were moved to an offsite location and are available on demand for delivery, and by becoming "bookless" the school said that frees up space for medical student education. The facility on the school's Ann Arbor campus officially reopened over the weekend." Read more here.

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Technology is helping to reinvent the way we interact with libraries. U-M’s Taubman Health Sciences Library just under went a a $55 million overhaul… and major rethinking of how it functions best.

Excerpt:

“Hundreds of thousands of books were moved to an offsite location and are available on demand for delivery, and by becoming “bookless” the school said that frees up space for medical student education. The facility on the school’s Ann Arbor campus officially reopened over the weekend.”

Read more here.
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