In the digital age, libraries got creative about how to translate services they’ve always offered into new formats. And they’ve transformed their spaces to have a variety of community uses.
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Australia’s plan to extend ISP ‘safe harbour’ copyright immunities to cultural institutions avoids more nuanced thinking about the nature and social value of culture, art and education.
Essays On Air: Why libraries can and must change
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The much heralded 'death of the book' has nothing to do with the death of reading or writing. It's about a radical transformation in reading practices, as explained in this episode of Essays On Air.
The history of the library is replete with mechanical marvels. More than collections of books, libraries are social, cultural and technological institutions that house the very idea of a society.
A new website allows you to see what other people search for in the State Library of NSW’s vast collection of artefacts – and discover things you’d never think to look up in the first place.
The popularity of libraries has not diminished. Numbers show more people are going to libraries than ever before. Here’s why.
It’s a common assumption that library use is plummeting – but that depends on which libraries you look at.
Australia has one of the world’s best reference libraries, available freely to anyone with an internet connection. Severe funding cuts will cripple Trove’s capacity – and that should worry everyone.
Libraries are warm, dry and safe spaces with free Internet, which many people need. But academics and researchers in the 21st century can get along very well without them.
African libraries have more of an opportunity than ever before to bring the continent’s knowledge to the world. They just need to adapt their traditional roles and functions.
Traditionally, libraries provided a quiet space to read. Today’s libraries are taking on new roles and helping young people gain 21st-century skills.
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Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Adjunct Professor, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University
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Deputy University Librarian, University of California, Merced
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Professor of E-Learning and Dean of Informatics and Design, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Independent Researcher, Tampere University
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Lecturer and tutor in Visual Communications, University of Technology Sydney
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Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and Cultural Informatics, University of Alberta
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Head of Assessment at Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Open Research Manager: Data & Methods, Loughborough University
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Professor of Law, University of Melbourne; Chair of Private Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Centre for Social Development in Africa, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg
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Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Fellow—Indigenous and Colonial Histories, University of Tasmania