SeaOat's Library

All sterile and modernistic and limited to electronic versions of whatever is available.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/13/3872478/americas-first-bookless-public-library-will-look-like-an-apple-store

Bexar County, Texas says that it will open the first 100 percent digital public library system in the country, unveiling plans for its first location this past week. The plan has been in the works for a while, headed up by Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, who says he was inspired to create a digitally native library while reading Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgh2dFngFsg&noredirect=1

Please watch this video.....it will change your life.....you see my debate about the library is far deeper than cute reading areas for children, it goes to the core paradigm of how we will control information......and who will profit.

This library is exactly what we will be seeing in as short of a period as 10 years.....but the paper books, copy right laws, and brick and mortar folks will scream at the top of their lungs.....but what is happening is not by accident.

I am sure adjacent to this information engine you could have some books for children.....a small children reading area, and some photographic displays in books for demonstrative purposes....but they should be limited. This is a cost effective model, and if heroes like Aaron Swartz can bring the world to all.....without the insanely expensive control of knowledge which exists today.

The biggest fight in America today is to get content on the internet where copyright laws do not censor the internet. We have special interest groups which are working every day to control the information, and to censor the internet.

When we discuss a local library, it is really critical to have folks realize that this battle is more than the insanely stupid waste of resources on brick and mortar, rather it is archaic copyright laws which if not given some kind of sliding scale will result in absolute censoring of the internet and then actual content of how we acquire information. The new Pensacola library is a dangerous place.....not because of its waste, but it affirms the broken paradigm of how information will be transferred in the future.......it may not rise to a conspiracy in the sense of T's vision of how the powerful have slowly taken away free choice of our citizens, but it is a slippery slope of restricting portals and information.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/aaron-swartz-death-fuels-mit-probe-white-house/story?id=18210596

This kid fought for free information being disbursed to the world....not Hollywood or Wall Street making a buck.....not a local library district buying into the corrupt structure of how we convey information by building masoleums to the dead concept of ownership of the internet. No the battle is very important.....and we are losing, because not enough patriots risked it all to insure we remain a free people.....silly library threads.....yep.

As I argued on another library thread.....the real battle in America is providing access to the internet to our children which involves expanding our current curriculum to include significant time training our children how to properly access information and content on the internet.

The problem remains that we need to stop the over reaching of copyright laws which will essentially censor the internet, and eventually destroy the same. Do you realize the early versions of SOPA would have allowed the Government to simply take down an entire website because of some content on that site not being in compliance with copyright laws. Orin Hatch who was in the back pocket of the credit card companies and took millions in campaign contributions from the same rammed through the bankruptcy reform act after Paul Wellstone mysteriously died in a plane crash......and the man who wanted to be able to have the government selectively be able to kill entire websites had copyright issues on his website.....but would they take down that website or a young kid who was trying to open the world to FREE access to information, and not allow the ease of confiscation, and the threat of censors shutting down that which challenges authority.

No, like sheep we get excited about brick and mortar in Pensacola.......besides being 10 years behind the issue cycle......it is stunning how unconcerned folks are with how close we came to the abyss, and how certain we shall return.......but now we have lost a patriot.....but his death must not be in vain.....each of us must be heard. Copyrighted and controlled internet is tyranny, while innocent use of material not for profit must be an expanded exception, and libraries must stop being shills for those Wall Street interests who simply want to destroy freedom and completely make this country a herd of sheep.

All sterile and modernistic and limited to electronic versions of whatever is available.

Compared to a brick and mortar Cave which might as well have wall drawings and clay tablets than enter the modern world.......nothing like all show and no go.

Yomama wrote:

All sterile and modernistic and limited to electronic versions of whatever is available.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/13/3872478/americas-first-bookless-public-library-will-look-like-an-apple-store

Bexar County, Texas says that it will open the first 100 percent digital public library system in the country, unveiling plans for its first location this past week. The plan has been in the works for a while, headed up by Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, who says he was inspired to create a digitally native library while reading Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs.

Looks like a lot of nice Facebook machines, er computers.

Looks like a lot of nice Facebook machines, er computers.


Sadly without curriculum changes you have nailed it.....we can no longer give people fish in the form of fancy brick and mortar monstrosities, rather we must teach them how to fish.....otherwise it will be another generation of sheep who have friends.

Like the CMP ballpark, the library is built. It is my opinion that both should be utilized to their fullest capacity. The time to grouse about either has passed. They are a reality. We all need to make the best use of them.

I am not against modern access to books and library resources. As I type, I am listening to an audiobook that I checked out of a library. My library up here is shutting down their internet server tomorrow in order to upgrade their system. Hopefully, it will be (like the old car repair commercial) much, much better than new.

They have a very modern library system here in Jefferson County. Every city in the county (Birmingham, Hoover, Mountain Brook, Vestavia, etc.) has an affiliated county branch seemingly as big as the new building in Pensacola... and all of them are vibrant, active, and well-attended... there is nothing sad about it.

there is nothing sad about it.

Until there are budget priorities.....and did not Jefferson County fight to stay above bankruptcy recently with the corrupt new sewer systems, and when the rubber meets the road.....they cut back access to a library....like in Pensacola.....by 30%.....when resources are wasted and you are wealthy, there is nothing sad, but when you are not.....well it is sad.

2seaoat wrote:there is nothing sad about it.

Until there are budget priorities.....and did not Jefferson County fight to stay above bankruptcy recently with the corrupt new sewer systems, and when the rubber meets the road.....they cut back access to a library....like in Pensacola.....by 30%.....when resources are wasted and you are wealthy, there is nothing sad, but when you are not.....well it is sad.

Jefferson County is bankrupt, but their library system is well used and there is nothing sad about that.

(I went to show you how busy the parking lot is, and the damn aerial shows... like 10 cars in a parking lot that may have 200 spaces... SHIT!) I have never seen that much room in the parking lot.