{"id":701,"date":"2005-08-23T14:55:22","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T19:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=701"},"modified":"2005-08-23T14:55:22","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T19:55:22","slug":"long-on-horns-short-on-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/long-on-horns-short-on-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Long on Horns, Short on Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Texas Library has found a way to decrease library costs &#8212; eliminate books.<\/p>\n<p>Kris Axtman of The Christian Science Monitor reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhen students wander into the former University of Texas undergraduate library this fall, gone will be the &#8220;Quiet Please&#8221; signs, the ban on cheeseburgers or sodas, the sight of solemn librarians restocking books.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is, there will be no more books to restock. The UT library is undergoing a radical change, becoming more of a social gathering place more akin to a coffeehouse than a dusty, whisper-filled hall of records. And to make that happen, the undergraduate collection of books had to go.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, 90,000 volumes were transferred to other collections in the campus&#8217;s massive library system &#8211; leaving some to wonder how a library can really be a library if it has no tomes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2005\/0823\/p01s05-legn.html\">[more at the Christian Science Monitor site]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Texas Library has found a way to decrease library costs &#8212; eliminate books. Kris Axtman of The Christian Science Monitor reports: When students wander into the former University of Texas undergraduate library this fall, gone will be the &#8220;Quiet Please&#8221; signs, the ban on cheeseburgers or sodas, the sight of solemn librarians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-information-commons","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}