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From the blog: "Over the past few decades, a growing proportion of materials purchased by libraries has been in electronic rather than physical format. This format shift has brought many changes in the way in which we make materials available, and archive and preserve them. We have also moved in many areas from owning materials to leasing or renting them. However, nothing in these shifts affect the fundamental principle that libraries should be able to lend the materials that they have acquired to the communities they serve." | From the blog: "Over the past few decades, a growing proportion of materials purchased by libraries has been in electronic rather than physical format. This format shift has brought many changes in the way in which we make materials available, and archive and preserve them. We have also moved in many areas from owning materials to leasing or renting them. However, nothing in these shifts affect the fundamental principle that libraries should be able to lend the materials that they have acquired to the communities they serve." | ||
- | ===== The wider context: Will There Be Libraries in 25 Years? ===== | + | ===== The wider context: will there be libraries in 25 Years? ===== |
- | [[https://time.com/6108581/internet-archive-future-books/|I Set Out to Build the Next Library of Alexandria. Now I Wonder: Will There Be Libraries in 25 Years]]? Brewster Kahle, Founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive. Time. 22 October 202 | + | [[https://time.com/6108581/internet-archive-future-books/|I Set Out to Build the Next Library of Alexandria. Now I Wonder: Will There Be Libraries in 25 Years]]? Brewster Kahle, Founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive. Time. 22 October 202 |
"Global media corporations—emboldened by the expansive copyright laws they helped craft and the emerging technology that reaches right into our reading devices—are exerting absolute control over digital information. These two conflicting forces—towards unfettered availability and completely walled access to information—have defined the last 25 years of the Internet. How we handle this ongoing clash will define our civic discourse in the next 25 years. If we fail to forge the right path, publishers’ business models could eliminate one of the great tools for democratizing society: our independent libraries." | "Global media corporations—emboldened by the expansive copyright laws they helped craft and the emerging technology that reaches right into our reading devices—are exerting absolute control over digital information. These two conflicting forces—towards unfettered availability and completely walled access to information—have defined the last 25 years of the Internet. How we handle this ongoing clash will define our civic discourse in the next 25 years. If we fail to forge the right path, publishers’ business models could eliminate one of the great tools for democratizing society: our independent libraries." |