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Brentwood
07-31-2012, 09:04 AM
We don't really need them in this day and age, do we? People can download the classics on their iPad/Kindle or go and buy won from a charity shop

As sad as it is, surely they've had their day?

Hillary
07-31-2012, 09:07 AM

Brentwood
07-31-2012, 09:09 AM

Luis Anaconda
07-31-2012, 09:21 AM
they are about more than borrowing books and the four I would go into (Archway, Highgate, Kentish Town and occasionally Camden were always busy). Particularly useful for older people to get access to the internet. I also borrowed the odd book or two as I had more than enough clogging up my flat - unlike a Kindle, books don't tend to break when you accidentally hit them with your knee on a coach

Hillary
07-31-2012, 09:30 AM
for people who don't normally have it.

redgunamo
07-31-2012, 09:32 AM
support such things as a means of showing what it (we) believe in.

Camp Freddie
07-31-2012, 09:54 AM
...it is access to books and information for those who would otherwise go without. Libraries also provide useful children services and information for those who might not otherwise have it. More to the point, not everyone has an ipad, kindle or internet for that matter. It's very easy when one lives a charmed middle class life to imagine everyone is the same. Technology is not equally distributed, like everything else...

Brentwood
07-31-2012, 09:58 AM
As more historical maps and books are scanned in and made available online, and when most people have internet in their homes, I just don't see a need to store multiple copies of books in multiple buildings

redgunamo
07-31-2012, 10:01 AM
rude words in very large dictionairies.

Camp Freddie
07-31-2012, 10:02 AM

Camp Freddie
07-31-2012, 10:03 AM

Luis Anaconda
07-31-2012, 10:05 AM

Camp Freddie
07-31-2012, 10:06 AM
...we could reproduce major works of art on large screens for example. Would that be agreeable in the digital age?

Camp Freddie
07-31-2012, 10:07 AM

Hillary
07-31-2012, 10:19 AM

Steve-OH
07-31-2012, 12:12 PM