Mon, August 21, 2017 9:20 AM
In an article featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education, University Librarian Haipeng Li discusses how his experience at the UC Merced Library has shown him that transitioning to digital collections is not a less expensive venture than maintaining a print collection, as academic librarians had once thought would be the case. Though having a 90 percent digital and electronic collection does not save the Library money, it provides significant benefits for our growing campus where space is a hot commodity; the library can offer more study space and researchers and students gain the ability to access materials remotely.
Read the full article here.
