// school tosses out 20,000 books, basically turns library into a starbucks//

notentirely:

via a friend who is a librarian…

Cushing headmaster James Tracy explained that the library is the “nicest space on campus” and that bookshelves wasted precious space that could be put to better use. The library will be transformed into an interactive learning center, faculty lounge, with a $50,000 cyber café and $12,000 cappuccino machine.

“We are passionate bibliophiles,” he says, explaining that the move will give students access to millions of e-books. “Students can still go to Barnes & Noble if the want to be surrounded by books.”

:: New England Prep School Tosses Its Library Collection ::

 I think I just threw up