15. Thinking Space "If I were a librarian right now, I would attempt to conceive of the library from an experiential point of view…. What is the experience that is missing…from the world…from the private home? What is the experience…that we need in order to be human?" What is lacking, he says, is the time and space to think, and he posits that "there'll be a new life" for libraries in providing "the thinking space for civilization. -- Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifest
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19. Third Place or Thinking Space. By: Fialkoff, Francine, Library Journal, 03630277, 2/1/2010, Vol. 135, Issue 2
20. Images from Flickr Creative Commons licensed and from Google image search, and James D. Griffioen
Multimedia Do we know what's happening We act like kids don't read.. when they read fewer books yes but they also read video, pictures, texts of all kinds FML
We have a role to play in slowing things down yes Spaces in the nome, at large and in schools are busier and noiser. The whoosh into some quiet space and into the quiet of silent study times for example are critical The school in the library and the library in the school
Something new will emerge. We will be with it or we will go down with out own ship. Your choice