{"id":30,"date":"2012-05-04T16:44:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T20:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/?p=30"},"modified":"2012-05-04T16:44:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T20:44:26","slug":"how-quickly-things-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"How quickly things change!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five or so years ago, I served on a provost committee headed by Jim Collins to look into building a library in front of the College of Communication. At the time, I was one of three dissenting voices about the need for (more) book shelves and robotic-operated stacks, instead calling for nice seating, espresso machines, magazine racks, and large wall LCD displays for visualizations, telepresence, etc. \u2014 only to be ridiculed by the library people, including the one quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2012\/mugar-on-a-microchip\/\">this BU Today article<\/a> as saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the decades when Mugar acquired books only, Hudson says, \u201cwhat we had been doing is building more book stacks and taking away seating.\u201d Digitization reversed that, allowing \u201cus to take some of the stacks down and start rebuilding student use space\u2014computers, but also carrels, group interactive spaces, classrooms.\u201d In short, \u201cwe\u2019re more than books\u201d and need student work space.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How quickly things change!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five or so years ago, I served on a provost committee headed by Jim Collins to look into building a library in front of the College of Communication. At the time, I was one of three dissenting voices about the need for (more) book shelves and robotic-operated stacks, instead calling for nice seating, espresso machines, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2093,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2093"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/best\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}