Can Architects Save Libraries from the Internet?

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theodp

on Sunday March 02 2008, @03:47PM

theodp writes "Slate has an interesting photo essay exploring the question of: How do you build a public library in the age of Google, Wikipedia, and Kindle? The grand old reading rooms and stacks of the civic monuments of the past are giving way to a new library-as-urban-hangout concept, as evidenced by Seattle's Starbucks-meets-mega-bookstore central library and Salt Lake City's shop-lined dramatic space. Without some dramatic changes, The Extinction Timeline predicts libraries will R.I.P. in 2019."

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