/2012/02/11/library-futures/Andrew Curry's blog on futures, trends, emerging issues and scenariosSat, 25 Feb 2012 17:40:50 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com//2012/02/11/library-futures/#comment-3639Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:40:50 +0000/?p=2578#comment-3639Very nice piece. I took a slightly different tack a few months back when thinking about ebooks, suggesting that even if ebooks ‘un-invent’ book lending, there’s still a value in shared public work spaces, especially as public space as a whole gets more squeezed: http://alexsteer.net/blog/2011/03/splitting-the-future-of-libraries-into-two/. Pushed further and mixed with the thought about boundary objects, there’s an interesting thought about libraries as *collaboration* spaces too, a bit like the TechShop model – http://techshop.ws/.

]]>/2012/02/11/library-futures/#comment-3611Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:57:10 +0000/?p=2578#comment-3611Alex Pang, at the Contemplative Computing blog, has a valuable response to this post: that one of the purposes of the library is to enable scholarly reading and contemplation. http://www.contemplativecomputing.org/2012/02/if-libraries-did-not-exist-it-would-be-necessary-to-invent-them.html

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