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Really? In my country libraries did audiobooks before everyone except for audible. They did movie streaming before everyone, including Netflix. They digitised t
by eksemplar 8y ago
Really? In my country libraries did audiobooks before everyone except for audible. They did movie streaming before everyone, including Netflix. They digitised the way you order, rent and pick up books in a way that'd put most digital retail to shame, and they did it before 2010.
They're almost exclusively open source, and they corporate across their sector to build and use the same standards, even though their management is as split up as everything else. I mean, I work in a muniplacity and we can't even agree to buy a standard component for our intranet even tough we're mainly looking for a new intranet because the old non-standardised component can't be upgraded, and meanwhile, the libraries across the country have developed and adopted universal standards for almost everything they do...
Libraries did service design and user based fail fast methods before anyone else, and I think they're still one of the few business to actually succeed at it.
They're really, really bad at marketing their successes though. Remember that movie streaming thing I talked about in the beginning? Well, almost nobody knows it exists. I bet, that none of the Danes who read this post will have ever heard about http://biblioteket.filmstriben.dk http://biblioteket.filmstriben.dk .
- tekromancr 8y agoThat's really fucking cool! Does it work by "checking out" the movie while it's being watched, then "checking in" when it's done? I could see a system like this working in the US if there was the funding for it. The library systems in the US have made pretty great strides in modernizing their offerings lately, lots of ebooks, lots of downloadable audiobooks. Unfortunately, much of it is closed source and driven by a company called OverDrive. It would be really cool to see a digital library revolution in the US. Anyway, libraries are dope. They need more support.
- blakesterz 8y ago"They're really, really bad at marketing their successes though." Funny thing is we've been saying this for literally decades.