Why libraries matter!

[Taltarzac725]

Why Libraries Matter - The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/371084/why-libraries-matter/?platform=hootsuite)

When was your first trip to a library?

[Topspinmo]

Age 5 in kindergarden. Libraries IMO will be thing of the pass just like the pay phones with all the electronic gadgets and information online in the future. Or there will be server and desk tops instead of paper books.

Think how easy it would be to just write book in the computer save it , back it up, and sell it. All without even having to go to the bank to cash the checks or have publisher involved? Paper back production/storage will be gone. Look at all the trees it will save:shocked:

Next to go will be paper money and coins. That way the can trace ever penny or transaction for tax purposes.

[Taltarzac725]

Age 5 in kindergarden. Libraries IMO will be thing of the pass just like the pay phones with all the electronic gadgets and information online in the future. Or there will be server and desk tops instead of paper books.

Think how easy it would be to just write book in the computer save it , back it up, and sell it. All without even having to go to the bank to cash the checks or have publisher involved? Paper back production/storage will be gone. Look at all the trees it will save:shocked:

Next to go will be paper money and coins. That way the can trace ever penny or transaction for tax purposes.

I hope they will not be a thing of the past. They do need to change quite a bit IHMO.

[Taltarzac725]

Getting as much practical information in many areas could help a great deal in keeping libraries a lot more relevant.

One big step in this is getting lawyers, nurses, doctors, etc. to create more materials with respect to medical and legal advice. Something that does not cross the line into providing medical or legal advice.

Some Facebook pages seem to be already doing this.

Collecting a lot of the materials from the Great Courses is part of the answer and then getting more lawyers and physicians doing these courses. The Great Courses (http://www.thegreatcourses.com/)

[Walt.]

Think how easy it would be to just write book in the computer save it , back it up, and sell it...

Plus... it would be so easy to "rewrite history."
If I recall, that was Winston Smith's job in the film "1984."

[Taltarzac725]

Plus... it would be so easy to "rewrite history."
If I recall, that was Winston Smith's job in the film "1984."

Actually some people try to do this. Usually not very successfully. Nazi historian seems like an oxymoron. Intellectuals In Crisis: Historians Under Hitler | VQR Online (http://www.vqronline.org/essay/intellectuals-crisis-historians-under-hitler)