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Repurposing Public Spaces For the Knowledge Economy

The Big Stink Wrote: May 31, 2012 11:47 AM

I've wondered this since the explosion of the knowledge industry. Libraries, as buildings, are obsolete. Any thinking person has a library at their fingertips. Closing a library and consolidating locations will become a political hot potato, though. And, think about all those liberal librarians who will be kicked to the curb of capitalism and forced to actually justify their worth in the economy.

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Louie13 Wrote: May 31, 2012 2:51 PM

Yes, Big Stink, the Internet can take the place of libraries today. Google has a project of making a internet library of all the world's books, but they ran into considerable opposition from copyright holders and such. Hopefully, they can get around those problems.

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GaryL1 Wrote: May 31, 2012 11:40 PM

Unfortunately, most internet articles are tightly edited, sort of like sound bites, and lack a lot of information that many books have. A lot of times, internet sources just copy other sources. As an example, I learned a lot more about Nikola Tesla in one library book rather than reading several internet sites.

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