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From: Daniel Gil
Date: Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 1:57 AM
Subject: [IFLA-L] Towards a New Library Model
To: ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr
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We need to think again, in a radical and disruptive way, about our
professional future, and the future of the buildings of our libraries. This
is not about introducing small improvements, or doing some new stuff so as
to avoid big changes. This is not useful anymore. *In spite of the obvious
and avowed success of the actual model of library, the social, economic and
cultural reality imposes itself just like a heavy slab; and this reality
imposes, wants and needs a systemic change, a new way of doing and posing
the libraries – of all kinds, not only the public ones*. Everything we have
done and planned during the last 30 years is not useful anymore. I wonder
if it would be necessary to create a new reading map. And I wonder as well
if a library of the magnitude and dimensions of the new Public Library of
Birminghamhttp://www.bauenblog.info/2013/09/04/biblioteca-publica-de-birmingham/is
applicable in our envirorment and social and cultural ecosystem;
moreover, I wonder if it would be advisable to build. I seriously doubt
about what to answer, despite my intuition makes me say ‘no’.
All article and comments in:
http://www.bauenblog.info/2013/09/26/towards-a-new-library-model/
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*DANIEL GIL SOLÉS*
*Bibliotecari-documentalista*
Col·legiat COBDC núm. 2.270
http://bauenblog.info
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Skype: danielgilsoles
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