In Florida, there is a library without books

In a futuristic building of the Polytechnic Institute of Florida library without a single paper book. Students offer a comfortable reading area for more than 135 thousand electronic publications.

The library at the institution has facilities in thousand sq.m. with excellent light high roof and comfortable chairs. The main specific features of the current library is not a cardboard volume. Students offer a comfortable reading area and a database of more than 135 thousand e-books, which can be found behind a computer terminal, a tablet or reader.

"Move further without books is a brave and important decision", - quotes the head of the Institute library Catherine Miller Tjournal. Library staff, without the need to observe the order on the shelves, will help students to navigate in the information database and find in it the necessary information.

If students still try to read from a paper or take an extract from a book, they will be able to print all need to installed inside the printer, let this operation will not be welcome. When electronic versions of the materials does not exist, his paper that can be ordered from other institutions in the state.

Starting budget of 60 thousand dollars has allowed the University to gain access to an extensive library of books, which students can freely open 1 times. In the second view he buys a publication in its own collection, therefore, allowing students themselves to form a database.

While creating your own libraries Polytechnic Institute consulted with NASA and the Institute of Central Florida, successfully containing similar institutions. In addition to providing access to a digital database, they are confronted with the need to pay annual royalties to the copyright holders, however, a paper book can be purchased 1 time and keep on the shelves to 120 years.

The construction of the Polytechnic Institute at a cost of 60 million dollars. It was erected just off highway I-4, which is also referred to as "high-tech corridor" in consequence of the great number of IT companies and educational institutions, located next to it.

Note that in the United States and the rest of the world is completely devoid of ordinary folios library as previously considered exclusive: meet typically hybrid options. Therefore, Polytechnic Institute trapped in a dome-shaped building project of the Spanish designer Santiago Calatrava, shows its ambitions in the field of high technologies.

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