Ha!

It’s conceivable that if a university were to downsize its collection of tangible reading materials, magazines and newspapers published from 1990 (or 1980) and on would be a sensible starting place; books, journals, and reference books published in the 21st century and on would only exist in electronic form.

The rare books collections, however, is commonly the pride & joy and monetary value of many libraries. and are too fragile to be digitized (unless you’re talking about posters where take several digital photos could suffice).

I think by the time you graduate from college, your school (if it hasn’t done so already) would mandate some kind of electronic submission of theses and term papers.

Thanks, Interesting read.