books or digital? I suspect this topic will be with us for some time. Many of you may have seen that recent CNN article about the future of libraries in the digital age:
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"The library building isn't a warehouse for books," said Helene Blowers, digital strategy director at the Columbus [Ohio] Metropolitan Library. "It's a community gathering center."
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The future of libraries, with or without books
Here's an interesting blog post in response to it:
Today's librarian, hip, delusional, and doomjed
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librarians should be exerting at least some energy, as their counterparts in publishing are, in helping to ensure the continued viability of the physical book, which has been and should continue to be the cornerstone of most public libraries.
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