I can't even list all of the different activities we saw going on at the archive. We visited the map room, the reading rooms, the microfiche room, and the children's section. Have a look at the following article taking us through the theme Reflections on the public Library San Diego.
We stepped over art students making sketches of the building interior; we breezed through one of the two brilliant exhibitions curated by the archive's staff, we tip-toed through the archive's rooms for research fellows. Each of these places was full of human beings, doing-I doesn't know what. Perhaps one of them was there to look online for a job, and maybe one was researching a story from their family history.
What does it mean to honor libraries? I don't need to reinvent the wheel here; there are quotes carved into the wall all over the archive. To honor libraries is to accept democracy. It is to honor the equality of citizens-to respect and indeed create a meritocracy. It is to acknowledge the role of knowledge in society. It is to accept human potential.
Up until early 2000, high cost in education, price hikes of textbooks and references, are enormous obstacles for Indian youth and college students. Training for young citizens or the lack of it is every country's issue, affecting the economy and unemployment rate of each nation. India is one of the countries that has found a workaround and a possible solution to education issues, getting today's students the opportunity to learn, even with limited financial resources. How? Online Libraries.
A patron would find the book she wanted in the catalog and write it down on a retrieval slip. The retrieval slip would then be put into a capsule which would be transported to the appropriate floor via what was then a modern vacuum technology. A porter would receive the tablet, and fetch the book. This system had the added benefit of giving rise to an urban legend: that the teams retrieving books travel around the stacks on roller skates (not right, I'm sorry to report).
As you might expect, the NYPL is very different now than it was when it opened. It was one of the first libraries to digitize its catalog, maintaining a wall of books filled with the old cards, for preservation purposes. We saw books being moved off-site, as the archive relocates much of its collection to a warehouse in New Jersey. The books will still be available, but they will have to be transported from the store upon request.
The opposite party, apparently conventional archive campaigners, are against online book sharing for fear of losing the fight on current archive funding that could cause closure of these establishments. An old-fashioned archive is a joy to the reading community. It can be a source of much-needed information, a haven for peaceful reading, and a local or national treasure and landmark.
In Busia, we get to be cutting edge now. We get to start from scratch and think about all the things that Busia needs, scope out all of the best ideas that are out there, and build based on that. We'll have a citizen science center, a co-working space, and an oral history lab. But, once established, the job of being innovative is not done-it's a continual process not to be a relic.
We stepped over art students making sketches of the building interior; we breezed through one of the two brilliant exhibitions curated by the archive's staff, we tip-toed through the archive's rooms for research fellows. Each of these places was full of human beings, doing-I doesn't know what. Perhaps one of them was there to look online for a job, and maybe one was researching a story from their family history.
What does it mean to honor libraries? I don't need to reinvent the wheel here; there are quotes carved into the wall all over the archive. To honor libraries is to accept democracy. It is to honor the equality of citizens-to respect and indeed create a meritocracy. It is to acknowledge the role of knowledge in society. It is to accept human potential.
Up until early 2000, high cost in education, price hikes of textbooks and references, are enormous obstacles for Indian youth and college students. Training for young citizens or the lack of it is every country's issue, affecting the economy and unemployment rate of each nation. India is one of the countries that has found a workaround and a possible solution to education issues, getting today's students the opportunity to learn, even with limited financial resources. How? Online Libraries.
A patron would find the book she wanted in the catalog and write it down on a retrieval slip. The retrieval slip would then be put into a capsule which would be transported to the appropriate floor via what was then a modern vacuum technology. A porter would receive the tablet, and fetch the book. This system had the added benefit of giving rise to an urban legend: that the teams retrieving books travel around the stacks on roller skates (not right, I'm sorry to report).
As you might expect, the NYPL is very different now than it was when it opened. It was one of the first libraries to digitize its catalog, maintaining a wall of books filled with the old cards, for preservation purposes. We saw books being moved off-site, as the archive relocates much of its collection to a warehouse in New Jersey. The books will still be available, but they will have to be transported from the store upon request.
The opposite party, apparently conventional archive campaigners, are against online book sharing for fear of losing the fight on current archive funding that could cause closure of these establishments. An old-fashioned archive is a joy to the reading community. It can be a source of much-needed information, a haven for peaceful reading, and a local or national treasure and landmark.
In Busia, we get to be cutting edge now. We get to start from scratch and think about all the things that Busia needs, scope out all of the best ideas that are out there, and build based on that. We'll have a citizen science center, a co-working space, and an oral history lab. But, once established, the job of being innovative is not done-it's a continual process not to be a relic.
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