Stanford University Engineering Library Replacing pBooks with eBooks no comments
After outgrowing its old space, 
the Stanford University Engineering Library will be housing its collection in a new library with a planned opening next month. In a Morning Edition segment, NPR reports that the new library will open with only 10,000 books on the shelves – a decrease of more than 85 percent from the old collection. The rest of the collection has been digitized.
When going through the library’s holdings to determine which books should be kept in a paper format on the shelves, librarians found that a majority of the books had not been taken down from the shelves in five years. The digitized editions also provide full text search, which makes it easier and faster for students to find needed information.
This is by no means the first library to convert much of their collection to digital; there have been several similar news stories, but this is probably one of the highest profile libraries to make the move. Don’t forget that Stanford was one of the first libraries that let Google scan its books.
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