ABSTRACT
"The True University is a Collection of Books." Every scholar has been faced with the inscrutable workings of electronic "books" in a research library's "holdings." The scholar summons the electronic manifestation onto whatever screen is handy and capable, and provided all systems are working properly will be granted to said scholar should a printed copy be needed for annotation or as a sentimental keepsake. A few institutions of higher learning have already dispensed with their "bricks and mortar" libraries—a symptom of cultural thoughtlessness that appeals only to servants of the "bottom line" who would likely be lost in a university library, if ever they entered one. Perhaps everyone by knows that "podification" is the most efficient and effective way to fasten the wandering undergraduate mind to articles in scholarly journals. Any scheme which succeeds in dragging young minds from their electronic gear to scholarly writing must be congratulated and appreciated, it goes without saying.
