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    Lamar High's Library Ousts Books, Re-Opens as Coffee Shop

    Reader Comment: What bothers me so much about this is that Lamar, considered one of the best public high schools in Houston, will no doubt set the trend for other schools, particularly those where the students can't afford the technology that MIGHT make books less necessary.

    By Margaret Downing

    We love the smell of burning literature in the morning.

    ​Just adding a coffee shop to a neighborhood library so people can feel like they're in Starbucks and ultra hip was apparently too passe a trend for Principal James McSwain of Lamar High School.

    Finishing up a week ago, McSwain has thrown out nearly all the books and filled the space they were unnecessarily taking up with couches and coffee and food and told his students that they can access the exciting world of reading through e-books! And if they don't have a laptop of their own and Internet access to do so, they can use one of the laptop computers in the library coffeeshop! . . .
    You can read the rest of this story here.

    — Margaret Downing
    Houston Press
    2010-11-23
    http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/11/lamar_highs_library_ousts_book.php

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