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How do you build a public library in the age of Google?
- mynameishere 19y agoPiffle. http://www.maxlyons.net/locreadingroom.htm http://www.maxlyons.net/locreadingroom.htm
- pchristensen 19y agoNice. I'd love to go there to work! (note: that wasn't sarcastic)
- ocastaneda 19y agohttp://www.flickr.com/search/?q=delft+library http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=delft+library
- noonespecial 19y agoThey call them "server rooms". Anything less is an intermediate step.
- edw519 19y 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?
- manvsmachine 19y agoBy 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.
- manvsmachine 19y agoan example: the design of the Seattle Central Library http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/49 http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/49