Reorganizing for the Distributed Library

Many university sites are geographically distributed, with more than one installation or campus at which their students can study. While this is true of university systems, such as the State University of New York, the University of Wisconsin, the California state universities, to name just a few, there are individual universities that maintain more than one campus. Some of these campuses are the location for specialized study, such as medical schools or oceanographic research centers. Other universities, though, maintain more than one general campus in the same city, providing geographically distributed access to the universities’ degree programs. The Carnegie classification defines these as urban multi-campus institutions: