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Friday, January 20, 2006
Place as Library? - Nancy Davenport, Educause Review
Digital technology is redrawing the library’s blueprint. Planners are thinking in new ways about how to design libraries as places for learning rather than primarily as storehouses of information. This thinking has given rise to much discussion—and to many publications—about the “library as place.” But in a networked world, why not also think in terms of “place as library”? At first, this phrase might seem to reflect the simple fact that today’s information-seekers get much of what they need electronically, often far from the physical library. There is more to the idea than that, however. As discussions of library as place have made clear, focusing on libraries solely as providers of information ignores much of the value that they bring to higher education today.
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