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The library also offers access to extensive electronic resources including e-journals, databases, statistical data, images and digital maps. opened in 1948, it was the first large university library built after World War II and the first open-stack library to offer free access to undergraduates.
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To see what I'm getting at, consider the difference between an open-stack library and a closed-stack library.
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The real value of the open-stack library, on the other hand, is not the book you were looking for, but the book you happened across on your way to what you were looking for.
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Newspapers provide an open-stack experience, one that the Internet (despite the fact that it is in many ways the world's biggest open-stack library) can't yet duplicate.
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