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books—shelved in a four-floor spiral connected by gently sloping ramps—were given pride of place in the design
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many assumed that physical tomes would soon go the way of the card catalog and the cassette tape.
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More than a decade later, however, demand for the printed word—and its place in libraries—remain strong.
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downtown Seattle’s new public library opened in 2004
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What has shifted is that libraries are increasingly tasked with accommodating a multitude of uses, of which book storage and circulation is just one.
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The most innovative library designs, she added, are those that “don’t just conceive of books as sources of information but of the social and intellectual practices that develop around reading and research.”
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room for research, and for the various kinds of work that are undertaken in a library today, but also preservation of many of the older library typologies that people love,” she said.
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“It's critical and vital to our communities that we create inspiring spaces where they can interact with each other and with our materials,”
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