How do you build a public library in the age of Google?

http://www.slate.com/id/2184927/

by jbrun • 18 years ago

5 7 18 years ago

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mynameishere• 18 years ago

Piffle.

http://www.maxlyons.net/locreadingroom.htm

pchristensen• 18 years ago

Nice. I'd love to go there to work! (note: that wasn't sarcastic)

ocastaneda• 18 years ago

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=delft+library

noonespecial• 18 years ago

They call them "server rooms". Anything less is an intermediate step.

edw519• 18 years ago

"predicts that libraries will disappear in 2019"

You mean just like the movies replaced live performances, TV replaced radio, and email replaced the post office?

manvsmachine2• 18 years ago

By embracing technology instead of competing with it. Free WiFi, better seating / accommodations for groups, lots of places to plug in, improved atmosphere. It's not impossible for libraries to get "mainstream" again, there are plenty of students needing places to study / hang out and others that would prefer not to have to pay for their WiFi at Starbucks. They should've been capitalizing on the coffeeshop craze, and remodeling themselves to grab some of that market.

manvsmachine2• 18 years ago

an example: the design of the Seattle Central Library http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/49

How do you build a public library in the age of Google?

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