I am a retired librarian who is dismayed at the decision to close the Vermont State Colleges libraries. 

I do agree that many of today’s young people have enough digital in their lives. I also think that, in certain fields of study, like history, digitized materials are not available. 

What do students do then? Go to another college that has books on paper or librarians to interlibrary loan materials that are not available locally? 

This decision is facile and not well thought out.

Sandra Lindberg

Shelburne

Vermont's newsletter

Request a correction

Submit a tip

Pieces contributed by readers and newsmakers. VTDigger strives to publish a variety of views from a broad range of Vermonters.