Libraries In The Digital Age (Updated)
Libraries go tech! Computerized card catalogues! Robot librarians! Well, maybe not that last one. Here's the article: Libraries Step Into The Age of iPod. An excerpt:
Hoping to draw back readers, libraries have vastly expanded their lists of digital books, music, and movies that can be downloaded by their patrons to a computer of MP3 player--and it doesn't cost a cent, unlike, say, media from Apple Inc's iTunes or Amazon. In Phoenix, for instance, branches have banded together to create a digital library that currently has about 50,000 titles of e-books, audiobooks, music and videos that can be "checked out" from anywhere.
The way I see it, it's become a matter of space, storage, and ease of access. Click the above link to read the whole article. Would that we could see something like that here someday soon.
Update: Check out The Bibliophile Stalker's essay on Libraries here.
Hoping to draw back readers, libraries have vastly expanded their lists of digital books, music, and movies that can be downloaded by their patrons to a computer of MP3 player--and it doesn't cost a cent, unlike, say, media from Apple Inc's iTunes or Amazon. In Phoenix, for instance, branches have banded together to create a digital library that currently has about 50,000 titles of e-books, audiobooks, music and videos that can be "checked out" from anywhere.
The way I see it, it's become a matter of space, storage, and ease of access. Click the above link to read the whole article. Would that we could see something like that here someday soon.
Update: Check out The Bibliophile Stalker's essay on Libraries here.
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