The New York Times has an article on the various book scanning projects and what it means. It’s a decent read. For 2,000 years, the universal library, together with other perennial longings like invisibility cloaks, antigravity shoes and paperless offices, has been a mythical dream that kept receding further into the infinite future. Until now.
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(via Cool Hunting and Inhabitat) An interesting reuse of materials to create an interesting building. From the looks of the photo’s of the interior it almost looks open-air/glass covered inside, between fuselages. An LED glass wall also adds an interesting touch. Would be interesting to see what kind of advertisements or other displays they could do. More photos at the sites above. No direct link at LOT-EK but it’s located under Buildings > Institutional > New Jalisco Library.
A topic that came up quite often at Library Camp and fittingly there’s a current article in D-lib. These numbers suggest that many items in a specific collection may be underused, and that there is limited exchange of materials between collections. As we move forward, we will be increasingly asked if this is an optimal system-wide arrangement, especially as readers increasingly move to the network. We can think of requirements in the terms expressed by the following subset of Ranganathan's laws: books are for use; each book its reader; each reader his or her book; save the time of the user.
The discussion was wide ranging and I only caught part of it due to a previous discussion going over. This was also the last one. Some general themes were how some of the “web2.0” services could be used in libraries and how library services could be updated to be more user friendly. Libraries aren't dead. Culture of fear, though it may help change. Might be put in retirement home though.