You're searching into Florida Polytechnic University's new library. Light, bright, admirable curves and... there's not a individual book on its shelves?
Nope, you apprehend that right. The 11,000 square-foot, $60 million, Santiago Calatrava-designed architecture doesn't accept a individual cardboard book anywhere aural it. Sure, it's a admirable amplitude for alive and reading—it's just that aggregate is digital.
In fact, the library has a accord with with publishers that allows accepting to admission titles already for free. If a additional apprentice chooses to apprehend the book, the library automatically purchases the cyberbanking book for its collection.
The acumen it works so able-bodied for Florida Polytechnic University is that it's a academy focussed on science, technology, engineering, and algebraic degrees—and there's a admeasurement and accepting of agenda volumes in those fields. It's harder to persruade harcore arcane academics that it's the appropriate administration to move in. But from here, it absolutely looks like the future. [Library Journal, Guardian via Verge]
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