Stanford University is moving toward the creation of its first "bookless library." 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. Libraries are the very heart of the research university, the center for scholarship. But the accumulation of information online is shifting their sense of identity.
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