Grainger can offer extensive access and far more information than we can in our own facility. We have worked with the Grainger staff to ensure good care of the few items unique to our library. In addition, the staff at Grainger, NCSA, and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science hold one of several national grants to develop digital library technology, and they are well on the way to providing access to many journals and other materials in electronic form. We expect that Grainger will be on our desktop, not just across the street, and its information will be at our fingertips. If we can find the funds, we will likely convert our library space to a reading room where students and faculty can browse donated journals and trade publications.
Exact plans have yet to be made.
So we all say goodbye to a part of DCL that started back in the late 1940s with the creation of the laboratory.