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  • The digital library concept seems horribly flawed, and the execution is unfortunately not paying off. I was a student here from 1987 to 1996, and of course the beauty of the library then was that you could walk up to the shelves, pick up a book, and read it. For those interested in military history, particularly alumni, we have been cut off from access to hundreds - possibly thousands - of rare and out of print volumes, that have been shuttled off to The Military Museums, which are only accessible during bankers' hours. Those of us with jobs (or, I suppose, classes on campus during the week) cannot arrange time to view the shelves and browse these books. Worse - the digitial library concept, in which books are warehoused without anyone having physical access, seems to be a failure. I requested a rare and out of print book (Black Yesterdays, the history of Canada's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in the Second World War, a giant illustrated volume now fetching several hundred dollars a copy on the used book market) from the TFDL. The concept as it stands is that these kind of books are warehoused, then brought out of storage on request. I receieved a notice instead that the book was irretrievably lost. My research was stalled - halted, actually - because the library had simply "lost" an out of print book of enormous value. Books are worthless unless they are circulating. They should ALL be on shelves and available to be browsed, right there on the campus. Not shuttled off to satellite sites which are rarely open, or worse, warehoused. The digital library idea is a horrible one.
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