The Hunt Library of the State University of North Carolina, has a new library where students can check out laptops and flash drives rather than books.
Reporting on the emergence of digital libraries in college campuses and counties all across the United States, Margaret Rock writes:
In some ways, libraries are doing what they’ve always done: adapting to technology, whether by collecting documents, storing records and videotapes or offering e-books and computer terminals. Today, they’re under pressure to give more and create spaces that connect people to information and ideas.[...] Books won’t fade, but with so many other mediums to explore, libraries, especially those with technology, can enhance skills. Access itself isn’t enough: libraries need to harness the sheer overabundance of information in the digital age and become facilitators to help us sort through the avalanche.
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