kmccook writes “The Prelinger Library is characterized as a radical laboratory at the border between our physical past and digital future in the May 2007 issue of Harper’s. “A World in Three Aisles: Browsing the Post-Digital Library” by Gideon Lewis-Krause discusses the library created by amateur experimental librarians Rick Prelinger and Megan Shaw Prelinger who “think the conflict between a so-called digital culture and a so-called print culture is fake.”
He characterizes Megan Shaw Prelinger and Rick Prelinger as uneasy about the Alexandrian vision of horizonless repositories and the BLYTHE APPROACH OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES to Internet caches.
While the Prelingers love public libraries they see that they are increasingly like shopping malls with librarians relegated to being customer service technicians.
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