2007
DOI: 10.7771/2380-176x.5252
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The End of Books and the Death of Libraries

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“…Here we found the question posed by many economists about the future – or the end – of libraries as they used to be. In the internet world, as Matthew Bruccoli (2007, p. 72) pointed out: “The universal library of digitally scanned books is not a library; it is a lot of electronic hardware and software – not books” […] and he added too: “Without real libraries and real books, there will be a lot of unemployed librarians” (Bruccoli, 2007, p. 70). So, the relevant question would be how can librarians continue to adapt and stay relevant in the future?…”
Section: Research Question: How Librarians Help Build Healthy and Sus...mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Here we found the question posed by many economists about the future – or the end – of libraries as they used to be. In the internet world, as Matthew Bruccoli (2007, p. 72) pointed out: “The universal library of digitally scanned books is not a library; it is a lot of electronic hardware and software – not books” […] and he added too: “Without real libraries and real books, there will be a lot of unemployed librarians” (Bruccoli, 2007, p. 70). So, the relevant question would be how can librarians continue to adapt and stay relevant in the future?…”
Section: Research Question: How Librarians Help Build Healthy and Sus...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Libraries face an uncertain situation in present times of the "digital revolution" while everybody and every single sector moved online, as Anderson (2005) pointed out. Later Bruccoli (2007), focusing on libraries, wrote his article: "The End of Books and the Death of Libraries". Recently, the closure of libraries because of the recent COVID-19 pandemic limited their role too, and the new scenarios after that reclaim innovation and creativity at the same time than action and purpose.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Articles associated with this topic focused on technological infrastructure and understanding policy as a role for modern librarians . Futurists writing on this topic forecasted the death of the book (Bruccoli, 2007) and encouraged librarians to shift their professional focus from libraries qua buildings and collections to librarian skills, knowledge and activities unmoored from the materiality of libraries (Plutchak, 2012). In contrast to commonly cited threats to the book in recent literature, one historical article from 1935 surfaced in our top five close readings that listed excessive dryness, excessive dampness, sunshine, gas, artificial light, sulfur dioxide and actinic light as the "enemy of the book."…”
Section: Collectionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Forecasting the death of libraries is not a new phenomenon, in fact the death and demise of the library is a recurring theme in both the popular and academic presses. Despite the fact that both library visits and library employment have remained stable over the past decade, forecasting the "death of libraries" at the hands of technology has persisted as a common trope (Bruccoli, 2007;MIT Technology Review Staff, 2005;Sorcinelli, 2016;. A 1992 New York Times article claimed "you will often hear it said that the print medium is a doomed and outdated technology, a mere curiosity of bygone days destined soon to be consigned forever to those dusty unattended museums we now call libraries" (Coover, 1992).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%