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Libraries Go High-Tech to Stay Relevant in the Digital Era

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 3, Interesting) by legont on Wednesday April 10 2019, @12:48AM (2 children)

    by legont (4179) on Wednesday April 10 2019, @12:48AM (#827181)

    First and most of all, libraries need legal help with what they always do - provide books on loan. Currently publishers charge libraries up to 10 times more for eBooks than retail. This has to stop; now. https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/e-book-prices-marked-up-too-high-libraries-protest-1.3123465 [www.cbc.ca]

    Same goes for all other types of information such as movies, audio, articles, and whatever might come to exist in the future. Meantime, until such a law comes to be, we should pirate all of it and never ever pay publishers at all, period.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @03:19AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 10 2019, @03:19AM (#827240)

    > never ever pay publishers at all, period.

    Gee, why not tell us how you really feel? How about paying authors, do they deserve anything for educating or entertaining you?

    Let me guess, you are also against any sort of program that would support artists that aren't popular yet, like universal basic income.

    • (Score: 2) by legont on Friday April 12 2019, @03:18AM

      by legont (4179) on Friday April 12 2019, @03:18AM (#828452)

      Bro, do it old fashioned way. Get yourself a steady job and income, and only then start doing art, science or whatever you are genius at. Than I might check you out.

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      "Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.