Monday, February 21, 2000
Ole Miss trails in library holdings
The University of Mississippi’s John Davis Williams Library recently celebrated its millionth volume, but the school still lags behind other libraries at Southeastern Conference schools in library holdings.
On average, SEC schools’ libraries hold 2.2 million volumes. Mississippi ranks last with one million and joins the University of Arkansas and Mississippi State University as the only conference schools with fewer than two million volumes. UGA’s Libraries rank among the highest in the SEC, with more than 3.5 million volumes and more than 5 million microform units. The Association of Research Libraries reports Harvard University has the nation’s highest-ranking research library with more than 13 million volumes, followed by Yale with 10 million and the University of Illinois with 9 million.

UK launches e-university
The United Kingdom will reportedly launch the world’s first e-university, which could award degrees from Oxford, Cambridge or London universities over the Internet. The plan, considered controversial, will allow students to sign up for a degree from the United Kingdom electronic university. The U.K.’s higher education funding council, which distributes money to colleges and universities, will be in charge of the project, which will be run as a partnership between the government, several schools, and one or more companies providing hardware and software to the project.
--Matthew Winston
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