A great post by Seth Godin - "The Future of the Library"...
dedicated to our resident Sherpa :)
"The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work at a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user."
"The library is no longer a warehouse for dead books. Just in time for the information economy, the library ought to be the local nerve center for information."
"The next library is a place, still. A place where people come together to do co-working and coordinate and invent projects worth working on together."
Ha, just read this myself about 10 minutes ago! The last quote you pulled was the memorable point for me - maybe because I hope library's are always places - just malleable so they move with us.
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