Three Years After Launch: The Bookless Library at The University of Texas at San Antonio

From UTSA Today:

Three years since it opened, the nation’s first completely bookless library on a college or university campus is thriving. The Applied Engineering and Technology (AET) Library at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) caters to the research needs of its College of Sciences and College of Engineering and has become an essential resource for its students and faculty.
The library has served more than 161,000 students and faculty since it opened its doors as a satellite library in the Applied Engineering and Technology Building on the UTSA Main Campus in March 2010. On average, the library welcomes 1,900 visitors per week when classes are in session.
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“This isn’t like an ordinary library where you’re expected to be quiet and stick to yourself,” said David Cruz, a junior mechanical engineering student who also works part-time at the AET Library. “The study areas plus the fact that we can write on the walls and have immediate access to tons of scientific materials make it the perfect place to work on projects and solve problems as a group. This library is always full of people.”
The AET Library subscribes to approximately 50,000 e-journals and 470 databases providing UTSA students and faculty with full-text access to millions of articles, data sets, videos, conference proceedings and much more. Students can access these materials from any computer, tablet or smartphone with Internet access, whether they are at home, on campus or on-the-go.
With more than one million e-books available to UTSA students for checkout, library officials report that e-book circulation was just over 500,000 in 2012.

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