(chronicle.com): Don't de-accession those print materials yet. The digital research library is not quite ready for prime time, according to Lisa Spiro, director of the Digital Media Center at Rice University, and Geneva Henry, executive diretor of Rice's Center for Digital Scholarship. To find out, Ms. Spiro and Ms. Henry did case studies of several libraries founded since 2000, including facilities at the University of California at Merced, Olin College, Soka University of America, California State University-Channel Islands, and New York University's Abu Dhabi campus. Signs of the digital shift are everywhere. E-resources expenditures "are only going up," Ms. Henry said. In 2008, research libraries spent a median of 53 percent of 2008 acquisitions budgets on e-resources. However, as demonstrated by a recent flap at Syracuse University over plans.
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