Do libraries have a future?

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Do libraries have a future?
Bethan Ruddock, ILI 2010

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A world without libraries?

Fragmentation
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Defragmentation?

...seeking to understand ourselves
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ECHO CHAMBER?
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Roots
Routes
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8 million stories in this naked profession...
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Libraries as the new secular cathedrals?
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Libraries as the new secular abbeys…
facing dissolution?
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Architects of our own destruction?
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Bethan Ruddock, Content Development, Library & Archival Services, Mimas
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Do libraries have a future?

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