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“if libraries did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them”contemplativecomputing.org
UK-based futur­ists Andrew Curry, Vic­to­ria Ward and Sabine Jac­caud have recent­ly com­plet­ed a study of the future of the library. Ward’s com­pa­ny Spark Now has a descrip­tion of the project on its blog, and this jumped out at me:The futur…

A very good and thoughtful article by Alex. And I agree with the values that lies in the future if the library. What I have difficulty with is how the current staff will take the ideas there. To me the people who is involved in library work seems too narrowly educated, and by far not represented on the levels in society which would be needed to perform such a transformation into the future. Maybe the a brutal reinvention is the only way to come to the library of the future?
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“if libraries did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them”
contemplativecomputing.org

UK-based futur­ists Andrew Curry, Vic­to­ria Ward and Sabine Jac­caud have recent­ly com­plet­ed a study of the future of the library. Ward’s com­pa­ny Spark Now has a descrip­tion of the project on its blog, and this jumped out at me:

The futur…

A very good and thoughtful article by Alex. And I agree with the values that lies in the future if the library. What I have difficulty with is how the current staff will take the ideas there. To me the people who is involved in library work seems too narrowly educated, and by far not represented on the levels in society which would be needed to perform such a transformation into the future. Maybe the a brutal reinvention is the only way to come to the library of the future?

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