Stanford's Engineering Library has moved from the Terman Engineering Center to the new Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center. The shift is seen to mark the forefront of a movement toward the 'bookless library'. The new 'bookless' Engineering Library at Stanford University - that opened August 2, 2010 - will not actually be bookless, but will only feature about 10,000 of its 80,000 titles on the shelves. The rest will be available electronically.
The revamped library will have a completely electronic reference desk with four Kindle 2 wireless reading devices. It will be the first on campus to have a self-checkout and book security system. By this fall, it will also have 15 e-book readers that library patrons may take home like regular books. Librarians will not be staffing a desk to help students and faculty, but will be available through e-mail, online chatting and Facebook.
An online journal search tool called xSearch will scan 28 online databases, a grant directory and more than 12,000 scientific journals. The library includes a digital bulletin board at the entryway that will display RSS feeds updating visitors with the latest research.
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