Seed Library | Pima County Public Library | Tucson, Marana, Ajo, Oro Valley, Sahuarita,... - 4 views
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Sharla Lair on 27 Mar 12It is amazing what some libraries lend anymore. There is a library in Missouri that lends cake pans. I have seen some libraries lend power tools, guitars and more!
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anonymous on 28 Mar 12Yeah, I've heard of cake pans and tools. Janine actually mentioned that some libraries check out seeds a week or two ago. I think checking out seeds makes more sense. Not to say tools aren't great, but when I think of libraries I think I them sharing and preserving *information*. Seeds are essentially just little packets of information encoded in DNA.
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Sharla Lair on 28 Mar 12Especially if the seeds are heirloom. It is a form of curation, if you like. ;)
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Jennifer Parsons on 28 Mar 12This is starting to sound like a science fiction story just waiting to be written.
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anonymous on 30 Mar 12I agree about curation. Since we're talking about science fiction now - which inevitably becomes science fact, in the not so distant future we will have desktop biological printers capable of "printing" a seed. Then libraries won't need to keep seed stores, they can just print any seed on demand if they have the DNA on file. Edit: Of course, that just means the e-resource vendors of the future will have another thing to try to license...