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Why Libraries Still Matter

6 pointsby _piusover 10 years ago

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walterbellover 10 years ago
Jonathan is at the Berkman Center, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/BerkmanCenter" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;BerkmanCenter</a><p>Good quote from article:<p><i>&quot;... where finding particular information amidst a Babel-like ocean of bits is not consigned to a handful of for-profit search engines and information-feed-generators who can tweak what people see for their own purposes — or at the behest of regulators.<p>That’s why it makes so much sense for us to be thinking about the revitalization rather than replacement of the library. In a world suffused with so much transient information as to inspire epistemic paralysis, we acutely need libraries’ power, independence, and ethos: institutions conceived to fight on behalf of their patrons, which is to say for the public and for the preservation and intelligibility of the public record.&quot;</i>