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Suggestions welcome
You close all the branches. Instead you open kiosks [maybe Starbucks?] and weed-out those dated, pricey, pesky, bookwormy, librarian-types with clerks [volunteers?] in aprons baring a BRAND-spanking...
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TOY SURPRISE INSIDE!
Future “books” will be bundled with soundtracks, musical leitmotifs, 3-D graphics, and streaming video. They’ll be enhanced with social bookmarking, online dating, and alerts from geo-networking apps...
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Future shop
The next library is filled with so many web terminals there’s always at least one empty. And the people who run this library don’t view the combination of access to data and connections to peers as a...
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Future odds
This may sound a bit odd, but libraries are really a life form. They exist as a human system, and as such tend to take on many of the same attributes as other life forms. THOMAS FREY, futurist see...
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“places for users to nestle in”
“…an arena for social interaction, a refuge for splendid isolation…” And yet it must also offer people opportunities to engage in solitary pursuits. Today’s community library might well be a place...
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