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Next generation public libraries
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September 2012
- Page 9
What will the next generation of public libraries look like? Two decades ago, it was predicted that the library as physical space was doomed. As the quantity and variety of technology and digital resources explode, some futurists are predicting the demise of the book. Will that signal the end of the public library?
In 1984, written in 1949, George Orwell predicted a paperless society; even earlier, in an 1894 article in Scribner’s Magazine, French bibliophile
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