SOAPBOX
By Phillip Torrone, Open Source Enthusiast
Is It Time to Retool Public Libraries as TechShops?
PUBLIC LIBRARIES — THE AVAILABILITY of free education for all — represent the collective commitment of a community to their future and to educating the next generation. The role of a public library should also adapt over time, and that time is finally here. It’s time to plan how we’re going to build the future and what place public libraries have, should have, or won’t have.
At one time the library was “the living internet” — you went there to look up something hard to find, to do research. Now it’s all at our fingertips through search engines, ...
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