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"Yet if the format of the future is digital, the content remains data. And at its simplest, scholarship in any discipline is about gaining access to information and knowledge"

"Yet if the format of the future is digital, the content remains data. And at its simplest, scholarship in any discipline is about gaining access to information and knowledge" - great article

This article is very thought provoking. It strikes at the heart of librarianship. How do you get the right information to the right people at the right time? Does it matter if it is digital or print? How do we preserve the data and access it in the future? What is the future of the book? Apparently it is the only item that has ever had a future. How is it that everything to do with books determines how we approach technology (for example, the article part which points out that terminology is taken from medieval ones for manuscript management)

"It's important for people to tell you what side they are on and why, and whether they might be biased. A declaration of members' interests, of a sort. So, I am going to be talking to you about reading. I'm going to tell you that libraries are important. I'm going to suggest that reading fiction, that reading for pleasure, is one of the most important things one can do. I'm going to make an impassioned plea for people to understand what libraries and librarians are, and to preserve both of these things."

"The era of the Web browser's dominance is coming to a close. And the Internet's founding ideology-that information wants to be free, and that attempts to constrain it are not only hopeless but immoral- suddenly seems naive and stale in the new age of apps, smart phones, and pricing plans. What will this mean for the future of the media-and of the Web itself?"