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Cushing Academy library goes bookless

David Abel and Chris Girard
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Officials at Cushing Academy, a prep school in Ashburnham about 90 minutes west of Boston, are parting ways with their 20,000-volume library, but not with its contents. The school's new "learning center" will have no books -- they have been donated or discarded -- but can all be accessed at computer kiosks where some of the book library was.

Click through this gallery to see how it'll work.
Officials at Cushing Academy, a prep school in Ashburnham about 90 minutes west of Boston, are parting ways with their 20,000-volume library, but not with its contents. The school's new 'learning center' will have no books -- they have been donated or discarded -- but can all be accessed at computer kiosks where some of the book library was. Click through this gallery to see how it'll work.
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