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No-Book Library? BiblioTech is Coming (1070L)

Instructions: COMPLETE ALL QUESTIONS AND MARGIN NOTES

Read the following article carefully and make notes in the margin as you read.

Your notes should include:

o Comments that show that you understand the article. (A summary or statement of the main

idea of important sections may serve this purpose.)

o Questions you have that show what you are wondering about as you read.

o Notes that differentiate between fact and opinion.

o Observations about how the writer’s strategies (organization, word choice, perspective,

support) and choices affect the article.

Your margin notes are part of your score for this assessment.

Answer the questions carefully in complete sentences unless otherwise instructed.

Student ____________________________Class Period__________________

No-Book Library? BiblioTech is Coming

Notes on my thoughts,

reactions and questions as I

A book-less library.

read:

It sounds like an oxymoron, but come the fall of 2013, San Antonio's Bexar

County is going to be home to the BiblioTech, the country's first book-less

public library. Of course, there will be books -- just e-books, not physical books.

The 4,989 square-foot space will look like a modern library, Bexar County

Judge Nelson Wolff, who was inspired to pursue the project after reading Walter

Issacson's Steve Jobs biography, told ABC News. (A glance at the photo shows

that it’s inspired by Apple in more ways than one.) Instead of aisles and aisles of

books there will be aisles and aisles of computers and gadgets. At the start, it

will have 100 e-readers available for circulation and to take out, and then 50 e-

readers for children, 50 computer stations, 25 laptops and 25 tablets on site.

"We all know the world is changing. I am an avid book reader. I read hardcover

books, I have a collection of 1,000 first editions. Books are important to me,"

Wolff told ABC News. "But the world is changing and this is the best, most

effective way to bring services to our community."

Library goers will be able to take out books on any of the devices in the library,

take out one of the 50 e-readers for a period of time or bring their own e-readers

to the library and load books onto their own devices. The library will also be

partnering with e-book providers or distributors to provide access to over 10,000

titles. The hope is to add to that collection annually. The county is still figuring

Stern, J. No-Book Library? BilblioTech is Coming. ABC News. January 14, 2013.

No-Book Library Bibliotech Is Coming (1070l) - Middle School Reading Article Worksheet