Online libraries are becoming more and more popular, and the idea itself is now making educators and government officials all over the world, explore the possibility of establishing and funding local and national libraries on the internet. Have a look at the following article taking us through the theme Online Library San Diego can they replace traditional libraries?
We stepped over art students making sketches of the building interior; we breezed through one of the two brilliant exhibitions curated by the archive's staff, we tip-toed through the archive's rooms for research fellows. Each of these places was full of human beings, doing-I doesn't know what. Perhaps one of them was there to look online for a job, and maybe one was researching a story from their family history.
I'm sure one of them was there to read poetry or look at old maps, and I'm equally sure that someone was there just because she had no place else to go. Perhaps someone is on the verge of curing cancer or writing their first novel. Each one was in their universe of thought, of ideas, of creation. In the international development community, when we talk about participatory or community-based development, I'm not sure why libraries aren't at the tip of our tongues.
This archive is a demonstration that New York City honors these ideals, however imperfect we may be in fully realizing them. Although its architecture is very classic, when the New York Public Archive was built, it was a model of innovation. The system of book retrieval is an illustrative example. Being a research archive, many of the NYPL's books are not in continuous demand.
There is no doubt that online libraries, which have vast collections of traditional books, literature, novels, educational textbooks, tutorial books, children's books, guide references and many more, exist to help; and help the youth, it does. Reading should not be exclusive to people who can afford to buy books. Settling with what the local public archive has, should not be the only alternative for those who can't afford to buy new books.
Another way to look at Maria's "libraries are like an ocean" comment would be to consider the intricate collection of actors required to make a archive run and be relevant-although perhaps we should call it an ecosystem. Private Citizens, government, technical experts in archive science, architecture, and technology, and of course the archive users-all of these groups need to be in the balance, to work in separate spheres but in concert with each other. This is a archive.
The opposite party, apparently conventional archive campaigners, are against online book sharing for fear of losing the fight on current archive funding that could cause closure of these establishments. An old-fashioned archive is a joy to the reading community. It can be a source of much-needed information, a haven for peaceful reading, and a local or national treasure and landmark.
We have yet to identify our local patron (if anyone reading this is the Brooke Astor of Western Kenya, email me!), and determining what is needed in the full archive collection is not even on the table yet. This process is slow and sometimes feels like a series of hurdles. And this it will continue to be, for as long as the archive is around.
We stepped over art students making sketches of the building interior; we breezed through one of the two brilliant exhibitions curated by the archive's staff, we tip-toed through the archive's rooms for research fellows. Each of these places was full of human beings, doing-I doesn't know what. Perhaps one of them was there to look online for a job, and maybe one was researching a story from their family history.
I'm sure one of them was there to read poetry or look at old maps, and I'm equally sure that someone was there just because she had no place else to go. Perhaps someone is on the verge of curing cancer or writing their first novel. Each one was in their universe of thought, of ideas, of creation. In the international development community, when we talk about participatory or community-based development, I'm not sure why libraries aren't at the tip of our tongues.
This archive is a demonstration that New York City honors these ideals, however imperfect we may be in fully realizing them. Although its architecture is very classic, when the New York Public Archive was built, it was a model of innovation. The system of book retrieval is an illustrative example. Being a research archive, many of the NYPL's books are not in continuous demand.
There is no doubt that online libraries, which have vast collections of traditional books, literature, novels, educational textbooks, tutorial books, children's books, guide references and many more, exist to help; and help the youth, it does. Reading should not be exclusive to people who can afford to buy books. Settling with what the local public archive has, should not be the only alternative for those who can't afford to buy new books.
Another way to look at Maria's "libraries are like an ocean" comment would be to consider the intricate collection of actors required to make a archive run and be relevant-although perhaps we should call it an ecosystem. Private Citizens, government, technical experts in archive science, architecture, and technology, and of course the archive users-all of these groups need to be in the balance, to work in separate spheres but in concert with each other. This is a archive.
The opposite party, apparently conventional archive campaigners, are against online book sharing for fear of losing the fight on current archive funding that could cause closure of these establishments. An old-fashioned archive is a joy to the reading community. It can be a source of much-needed information, a haven for peaceful reading, and a local or national treasure and landmark.
We have yet to identify our local patron (if anyone reading this is the Brooke Astor of Western Kenya, email me!), and determining what is needed in the full archive collection is not even on the table yet. This process is slow and sometimes feels like a series of hurdles. And this it will continue to be, for as long as the archive is around.
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