Why Georgia Tech is moving 95% of its library books off campus

The project is “a fundamental rethinking of what a research library in this century in an academic institution is supposed to do,” Catherine Murray-Rust, Georgia Tech’s dean of libraries, told Business Insider.

Under the new renovations, students will be able to borrow library books the same as always. Only now, when they find a book in the digital catalog and scan their library cards, the book must be delivered from the storage site five miles away from campus.

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