Ohh ! ! !, the term "Brave New World" comes to mind for this poor luddite of a librarian who loves the feel, smell ( the nice clean one, not the ' cat pee' one) and touch of holding an actual book.
I think I understood most of the words in "Into a new world of librarianship", but at this early stage I'm not sure I'm ready ! !
I can see the need for new technology being added into the library system as a whole and it's great to know that more people will have access in the future to information from their home or whatever space they hapen to be in.
"To a temporary place in time" this article kind of freaked me out a bit. The only avatars I've ever heard of were probably in Star Trek Deep Space Nine, and while the idea of a Country House Library is lovely, it did seem to have a whiff of the "them v/s us" about it.
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It raises interesting points from a different perspective
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