Comments on: A vision for public libraries https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com What's happening to your library? Tue, 29 May 2018 09:38:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Glyn Sutcliffe https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/reasons-for/a-vision-for-libraries#comment-32909 Tue, 29 May 2018 09:38:09 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?page_id=2304#comment-32909 Libraries are much simpler than that. They form an open ended contract between provider and user. The provider supplies structured access to the sources and the user decides how to use that structured access. The rest is a dialogue between provider and user. This is too elementary for many to grasp.

]]> By: Ian Anstice https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/reasons-for/a-vision-for-libraries#comment-5789 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 19:10:40 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?page_id=2304#comment-5789 In reply to @LibraryWeb.

What would be your suggestions of the New Librarianship school? I am curious.

]]> By: @LibraryWeb https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/reasons-for/a-vision-for-libraries#comment-5787 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 17:34:50 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?page_id=2304#comment-5787 That is very much a functional and reductionist approach, which will not survive in the times of change we live (you can tell I’ve been eating a New Librarianship lecture for breakfast #newlib 😉

]]> By: darren smart https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/reasons-for/a-vision-for-libraries#comment-5786 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 07:15:40 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?page_id=2304#comment-5786 Superb summary of what libraries are really for. Books (& IT) are our tools but the paid, trained staff are the artisans who use them to help people reshape their lives for the better

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