Not Everyone Pleased by New Library Technology

Libraries Are Being Ruined by Technology

Peter Franklin | July 14, 2015

Libraries should be full of two things – (a) books and (b) silence.
They gave up on the hush years ago: ringing mobiles, leaky headphones, idle chat and screaming children aren’t just tolerated but encouraged. Noisiest of all are the librarians themselves, gabbling away at a volume that would shame a fishwife.

Source: http://shsapeconomics.blogspot.com/2014/10/is-technology-ruining-society.html

An even bigger betrayal is the trend away from books, which, one might have thought, are the whole point of a library. In libraries in this country and elsewhere, bookshelves have retreated before the advance of various electronic technologies – which have a tendency to age much faster than the good old-fashioned hardback.

<more at http://www.conservativehome.com/the-deep-end/2015/07/libraries-are-being-ruined-by-technology.html; related links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_destroyed_libraries (List of destroyed libraries) and http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/03/how-to-almost-ruin-a-great-library.html (How to (Almost) Ruin a Great Library; Public libraries have lately shifted their mission from culture to social services. The NY Public Library’s main branch was almost a casualty of this trend.); further: http://shsapeconomics.blogspot.com/2014/10/is-technology-ruining-society.html (Is Technology Ruining Society. October 9, 2014) and https://medium.com/@Aegist/the-memetic-immune-system-of-the-internet-4ac608da21e (The Memetic Immune System of the Internet; Ending the threat of misinformation online could be as easy as listing responding articles alongside the faulty claims)>