Despite the innovations happening on college campuses, university libraries continue to be an academic center for students.
In order to keep up with the continuous marriage of education and technology, universities are implementing new digital solutions in their libraries.
At Western Michigan University, students are piloting telepresence robots to ensure users get the help they need no matter where a librarian is on campus.
“Librarians can’t be everywhere at once,” May Chang, library CTO for the University of Cincinnati and chair of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions’ 2019 conference on robots in libraries told EdTech. “So a telepresence robot allows them to spread their reach and be in two places at the same time.”
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