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by BillSeitz
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Aug 30, 2008 12:51 am |
LibrarY open to the public
How important are public libraries (not university libraries) in the days of the Inter Net? When I was a kid I went mostly for school papers, and most of that was based on starting with the encyclopedia. Between Wiki Pedia and GooGle, much of that seems pointless. Certainly authoritative books out-do most of what you can find online, but how many kids use such things?
Many of the NYC libraries keep such weird/short hours that you wonder who the target market is? Certainly not anyone with a day-job.
In summer'2004 I went to the local branch (at its 1pm opening time) to donate some books. There was a line of (~10) people waiting for it to open, and I was impressed/amazed. But once the doors opened, 90% of them turned out to be waiting for the free computers. And my non-current non-fiction didn't interest them: "I'll put these in our book fair."
The Seattle Public Library was designed by [OMA]/Rem Koolhaas.
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog