Brewster KahlePrivatizing local public libraries?
Yes, and ongoing. article about one pending takeover: https://bookriot.com/huntsville-public-library-privatization/
The vendor cited is:
https://www.lsslibraries.com/who-we-are/
Yow. New to me.
What do you think?
drmna_info@brewsterkahle Travesty. Sadly, the future of libraries. After a nearly 30 year career in libraries, I'm about done.
stinkolibraries are...
Not Dead Yet.
These are the Best time to be in libraries because they are in transition. Transitions are a time libraries need help, and libraries can be helped.
We need to keep the spirit of "Free to All" of the Boston Public Library.
All hands on deck.
Tiakuh Son@brewsterkahle @drmna That being said, its imperative to improve digital libraries. That's the only way to democratize literature beyond physical accessibility whitin a country. I find several times that the books I am interested are hundreds of km away.
Agreed-- as much as I love print, it is digital that is our way forward.
As for the @internetarchive we are preserving one copy of every physical and digital published work we can (now millions of copies of both physical books and digitized books for instance).
for reference work, at least, digital is the way to go.
antipode77@brewsterkahle @tia6o @drmna @internetarchive
Books are a societies memory.
We should keep both paper and digital.
We need a cycle. Book -> digital -> book -> ...
1 Create multiple copies of a book on archival paper. Store in multiple places.
2 Digitize the book with current technology.
Make it free to the world like Gutenberg.org.
Revise copyright. It is way to long.
3 Every ... years repeat step 1
Digital is short term as it fast changing.
Paper is long term and hardly changing at all.
@brewsterkahle I have followed you and your work for many years. I appreciate your efforts. What role can the typical public library in America have in this time of transition? What help can "we" provide to libraries in an era of declining visits and circulation? On the whole, commercial e-content is very expensive and comes with strings that inhibit its "Free" use. Again, thanks for all that you have done toward the digitization and preservation of materials at Archive.org