4 Very Different Futures Are Imagined for Research Libraries - Libraries - The Chronicl... - 0 views
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"Research Entrepreneurs," lays out a future in which "individual researchers are the stars of the story."
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Reuse and Recycle," describes a gloomier 2030 world in which "disinvestment in the research enterprise has cut across society." With fewer resources to support pathbreaking new work, research projects depend on reusing existing "knowledge resources" as well as "mass-market technology infrastructure."
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The "crowd/cloud" approach is widespread, producing information that is "ubiquitous but low value."
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The Library in the New Age - The New York Review of Books - 0 views
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four fundamental changes in information technology since humans learned to speak.
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around 4000 BC, humans learned to write.
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the invention of writing was the most important technological breakthrough in the history of humanity
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Do School Libraries Need Books? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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constant need to acquire new books
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more efficient to work online
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went beyond stacks and stacks of underutilized books.
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The writing's on the library wall - and I don't mind - 1 views
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"Around 10 years ago some strange things started to happen to my college's library. For a start the name of the place changed. It wasn't called a library any more - it was to be known as the learning centre. (Interestingly, though, the people who ran it weren't rebranded as learning centerians, having to content themselves instead with the dusty old tag of librarian.)"
The Jacket Designer's Challenge: To Capture a Book by Its Cover - 21 views
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"Peter Mendelsund estimates he's designed "somewhere between 600 and 1,000 book covers," ranging from Crime and Punishment to Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.... Now Mendelsund has designed the covers for two new books of his own. Cover is a collection of hundreds of his book covers, including many that were rejected, along with commentaries on his technique. What We See When We Read is about how words give rise to images in our minds." Article and podcast
Augmented Reality | Engage Their Minds - 22 views
Nova - Science for curious minds - 12 views
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