What is the future of the library?

[wzMercy194]

emm...

[7HDebra170]

MORE? PLZ

[chocolego]

thanks a lot lol, this helping me so much..

[ozones01]

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[ozones01]

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[ihventura]

The music is a total byte on a Lisa Hannigan song... just saying.

[ToxicOdiousOne]

Bong? Lol. Ifag? I just admit that in this world much like the Twilight Zone librarians are obsolete. Librarians are as useless as priests. Libraries are as useless as churches. Libraries do not operate in a for profit capitalist system. We can't very well have socialism in our communities. Commie libraries on Main Street?

[chevychase]

There is no hope for any democracy without public libraries. There will never be any hope for the poor of the world to become educated without libraries.

[chevychase]

Libraries are more heavily used and more desperately needed today than ever before just as they are, and books are going nowhere... they will stay with us at least for one or two more generations. Libraries are essential as a community gathering space, a place for meeting rooms, for tutoring, for books on CD for commuters, for DVDs, for information, for tax forms, for wi-fi access, magazines, storytimes, for internet access for the poor, the old, and those whose computers are broken, etc.

[ToxicOdiousOne]

The internet and closure of all libraries. No more tax subsidies wasted on libraries which never produce a profit and are a liability to the community.

[bezakor]

@ToxicOdiousOne "a liability".... my guess is you are not entirely aware of a developing world's needs.

[ToxicOdiousOne]

@bezakor Who cares about the developing worlds? We have the internet and libraries are obsolete wastes of taxpayer money. Turn them into profitable stores.

[gr8cate78]

ToxicOdiousOne, your name says it all. You are a blight upon enlightenment. Schools never produce a profit so we should probably close them all too. And how about all those sick and old people, what a liability to the community, right?

[IcarusFlying]

Great video. Great ideas. I give my thumbs up, but it's all just a dream. Design a reality. Review, improve, and finalize the design, and lets get to work.

[Spashleyluvr]

Great video, but... where is this accent from? I had trouble understanding some bits :/

[Rownery]

Rofl Digital data books will make you blind from staring at the moniter for so long. Anybody who thinks the internet will replace books anytime soon is asinine

[ossito]

@Rownery Would you agree that if any school or community wishes to keep up, that the idea of a physical paper book is as obsolete as writing on cave walls or papyrus. I hear what you are saying but people can not expect to waste tax revenue on services that are not keeping up with the rest of the world.

[Rownery]

@ossito No the idea of a physical paper book is not yet obsolete, not even close. R u dumb?

[ossito]

@Rownery Ok, calm down with the "dumb" stuff, I am asking you to get your opinion, I currently live in Chicago, IL and there is standoff here between some mothers and the school district, the school has no library and they have asking for one for years yet the city says it does not have the funds. I understand children need books but is there viable compromise between cost and efficiency so that all involved with education and those inherit responsibilities can be made happy.

[ossito]

@Rownery perhaps my sarcasm did was not apparent with mention of cave walls, lol.

[Rownery]

@ossito Sorry, I didn't notice the sarcasm online.

[ToxicOdiousOne]

@Rownery Nook Color, the Ipad, and laptops have already make books and libraries irrelevant in modern society. Who borrows books anymore?

[Rownery]

@ToxicOdiousOne Put down the bong please you smelly ifag

[heruka7]

great video. truly visionary in my opinion.

[TLB73737]

First, there is no such thing as a "digital divide" -- no matter how many books and articles are written on the subject. There is no more a digital divide than there is a BMW divide or an intelligence divide. Guess what? People are different and no amount of handwringing will make it so. Yes, digital archiving is making it possible for more people to access knowledge from where ever they happen to be, but this does not mean that everything will be free. Intellectual property still exists.

[soapygirl83]

@TLB73737 except that the digital divide exists in who can access computers and internet and who cannot.

[theloars]

Great video! Reminds me a bit of Leadbeater's We Think

While developing countries do most certainly have issues of information access, you may also want to look into how countries like Africa & India are leapfrogging into newer technologies/services like mobile communications--without waiting for landlines. (e.g. Africans/mobiles/banking)

How do social & political paradigms affect the information needs of a population, and how do libraries as physical & virtual spaces meet those needs.