The death of the library book
Cambridge (MA) has a gleaming new main building, but something’s missing — and closing local branches won’t help.
What’s the purpose of libraries — really? To be a community gathering place? To promote lifelong learning? To help users navigate the information flow? To store print documents for the historical record, as Nicholson Baker argues they should (and aren’t) in “Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper”?
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