{"id":280,"date":"2007-10-18T19:29:29","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T23:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2007-10-19T08:37:36","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T12:37:36","slug":"the-future-of-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/the-future-of-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/the_new_stacks.html\">Peter Brantley<\/a>, a beautiful comment from Winston Tabb, the Librarian at The Johns Hopkins University, which provides a nice lens through which to view the challenging situation libraries find themselves in:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Data centers are the new stacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting time to be a librarian.  I spent a couple of months earlier this year working in the State Library of Queensland.  I met some librarians who were incredibly upbeat about current opportunities, and others who were in denial.  One day, at lunch, I overhead a conversation between two librarians discussing the &#8220;impossibility&#8221; of putting the entire back catalogue of major newspapers online.  I wonder how long before Google or someone else unveils such a catalogue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> In comments, John Dupuis, Head of the Science Library at York University, points to a <a href=\"http:\/\/jdupuis.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/10yrs%20series\">thoughtful series of essays<\/a> on the opportunities and challenges now before libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Peter Brantley, a beautiful comment from Winston Tabb, the Librarian at The Johns Hopkins University, which provides a nice lens through which to view the challenging situation libraries find themselves in: Data centers are the new stacks. It&#8217;s an interesting time to be a librarian. I spent a couple of months earlier this year&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/the-future-of-libraries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The future of libraries<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}