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Date: | Fri, 7 Jan 2011 20:00:41 -0500 |
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Flor is right, but Harry is right in at least the classical library sense.
And libraries realize it seeing the need to find new niches for them to
justify their existences and funding.
One area is the growing number of pc work stations that can be found in
libraries along with them being wifi hotspots.
Another is community involvement projects such as reading/viewing groups
who will use the library to watch movies, hold discussions, or have their
non-profits meet there.
Libraries see the need to be online, act as reference services, and allow
their facilities to host speakers.
How all that will play out in time, no one knows. A public library
lhowever, is forced to view itself as something beyound a home for
thousands of bound books and volumes.
If that is all it is, then it's days are numbered. Savvy librarians have
already figured out that if they want gainful employment as librarians
down the road they will have to view their place of work in terms far
different than their predecessors did.
As for libraries for the blind, I would n't encourage a young person to go
into that field as I don't see it around a generation or so from now.
Thankfully, technological changes will probably render them unneeded
relics of a bygone era.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot
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