From cloud services to smart assistants, campus libraries are rewriting the book on innovation.
“A few years ago, for example, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s J. Murrey Atkins Library moved all its infrastructure to Amazon Web Services. It has never looked back, says Bob Price, the library’s associate dean of technology and digital strategies.”
Source: Libraries Use Cloud and Other Tech to Reimagine Traditional Services | EdTech Magazine
After the UK’s Society of Authors asked the Open Library to stop making its scanned books available to people in the UK, the US’ National Writers Union published a letter making similar demands.
Source: The Open Library Now Faces The National Writers Union
Editor’s Note: Not a research library after all, and no documents except online.. not so good, even in the 21st Century…
“But the center, which will cost an estimated $500 million, will also differ from the complexes built by Barack Obama’s predecessors in another way: It won’t actually be a presidential library.In a break with precedent, there will be no research library on site, and none of Mr. Obama’s official presidential records. Instead, the Obama Foundation will pay to digitize the roughly 30 million pages of unclassified paper records from the administration so they can be made available online.”
When an online news outlet goes out of business, its archives can disappear as well. The new battle over journalism’s digital legacy.
Technology is designed to be addictive, offering gratification that’s similar to that of drug abuse or gambling. Author Adam Alter says a new frontier could soon provide another escape from reality.
Fearful of digital decay, a ceramicist wants to return data storage to a more lasting medium: clay.
Source: Memory of Mankind: All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine – The Atlantic
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