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      'Save the Books': Outcry Grows Over Digital Plan for Vermont College Libraries

      'Save the Books': Outcry Grows Over Digital Plan for Vermont College Libraries

      "How can you defend a higher education institution without books?" said a biology professor at Castleton University. "It's an embarrassing decision."

      Jessica Corbett
      Mar 13, 2023

      Students, staff, alumni, and bibliophiles remain outraged that libraries at Vermont's public college are set to lose vast portions of their book collections, despite a new "refined plan" to potentially retain volumes that "have been deemed academically valuable."

      Faced with intense backlash to the all-digital plan unveiled last month, the Vermont State Colleges System (VSCS) said Thursday that academic department chairs and the provost may now be allowed to decide which books survive the purge.

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