More Evidence That College Libraries Are Thriving

Bailey/Howe Library, University of Vermont

Link to April 19 Burlington Free Press article, "College libraries are humming in Vermont".

Excerpt:   This being the Digital Age, and this being the season of term papers, you might suppose that college students simply are Googling away in the comfort of their dorm rooms, and that college librarians have it easy — like Maytag repairmen.

You would be wrong.

Librarians prefer another simile. They consider themselves to be more like tax accountants in April — much sought-after as deadlines loom.

And college libraries? As the semester winds down, they’re crowded. So much for the idea that the Internet is rendering libraries obsolete.