Creating the public library of the future

Creating the public library of the future
For several years, Martin Gomez has been actively promoting the Digital Public Library of America – a campaign to digitize inventories of cultural and scientific records and make them available to everyone, online – in effect, creating the public library of the future. Until this month, he served as general manager of Los Angeles’ public library system, overseeing 72 branches, 1,100 employees, and an annual budget of $129-million. He resigned recently to take a new job as vice-dean of libraries at the University of Southern California. Mr. Gomez was in Toronto this week to appear at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Before his address, he spoke to the Globe and Mail’s Michael Posner.

March 5, 2012 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. Anonymous says:
    March 8, 2012 at 3:04 am

    Wow that’s sounds fun
    I agree that the trust from the public to the libraries is the core for digital library in the future.

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