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posted by takyon on Tuesday April 09 2019, @06:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the computer-lab-with-book-section dept.

CNet:

Libraries are repositioning themselves as cultural and learning centers for the digital age. Many lend out mobile hotspots, often for weeks at a time. Others offer classes in the latest tech, such as 3D printing and music-editing software. And libraries have some of the savviest social media editors around.

On Sunday, libraries across the country began celebrating their evolving mission during National Library Week. Melinda Gates serves as honorary chairwoman of the annual event, which is sponsored by the American Library Association. Gates is an appropriate choice: She and husband Bill began funding computers, internet access and software for libraries in low-income communities through an organization they established in 1997.

Do libraries have a future as makerspaces?


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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday April 10 2019, @02:50PM

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday April 10 2019, @02:50PM (#827452) Journal

    I work in a library.

    https://librivox.org/ [librivox.org] - Librivox - Public Domain Audio Books
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ [gutenberg.org] - Gutenberg - Public Domain E-Books
    https://www.hathitrust.org/ [hathitrust.org] - HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
    http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ [childrenslibrary.org] - International Children's Digital Library
    https://books.google.com/ [google.com] - Google Books
    https://archive.org/index.php [archive.org] - Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
    https://openlibrary.org/ [openlibrary.org] - Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.

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