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Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information.
In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues that anyone seeking to participate in the 21st century needs to understand how to find and use the vast stores of information available online. And libraries, which play a crucial role in making these skills and information available, are at risk. In order to survive our rapidly modernizing world and dwindling government funding, libraries must make the transition to a digital future as soon as possible—by digitizing print material and ensuring that born-digital material is publicly available online.
Not all of these changes will be easy for libraries to implement. But as Palfrey boldly argues, these modifications are vital if we hope to save libraries and, through them, the American democratic ideal.
- Sales Rank: #268811 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, .92 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
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- New, perfect condition, signed by author.
Review
New York Review of Books
“In his new book, BiblioTech, a wise and passionate manifesto, John Palfrey reminds us that the library is the last free space for the gathering and sharing of knowledge.”
Washington Post
“Palfrey is adept at explaining the struggles libraries face with technologies that constrain as much as they liberate...[and] is particularly good at explaining new legal challenges to preserving information.”
Nature
“Anyone interested in the future of libraries — and whether there is one at all — will find much to mull over in this book.”
Miami Herald
“The persuasive argument Palfrey makes in BiblioTech is simple: The conventional wisdom that suggests libraries aren’t important anymore — and thus require less funding — isn’t true, no matter how many Google searches we can perform on our phones.”
Roanoke Times
“BiblioTech is an exciting adventure — the exercise of imagining how we can provide a library model that will ensure the continued education and enjoyment of future generations no matter how they create and receive the information they will share.”
Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Book Patrol blog
“[A] lucid, passionate account of the state of American libraries… a handy guide for how to begin to right the ship.”
LibraryCity.org
“A must-read.... BiblioTech reminds us that libraries are and should be about much more than books.”
VOYA Magazine
“Thought-provoking and well-researched, this book takes a long view of the role of libraries in communities and society with careful attention to the shifts required to retain relevance in the digital age.”
Library Journal, starred review
“A celebration of libraries as well as a dose of tough love.... [T]his work should be required reading for librarians, particularly those who are looking to lead their libraries into the future.”
Publishers Weekly
“Carves out a strong and exciting vision for libraries in the 21st century.”
Kirkus
“Palfrey provides insight into local efforts in schools and libraries around the country.... A significant wake-up call.”
John Willinsky, Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford University
“In this engaging shout-out to public libraries as bastions of info-age equality and opportunity, John Palfrey presents a compelling vision of a ‘network-scale’ revitalization of their contributions to learning and community.”
Jonathan Zittrain, Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at the Harvard Law School Library, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
“John Palfrey’s BiblioTech is a sparkling call to action for libraries everywhere—urging them to collaborate and adapt to survive in the ever-expanding, increasingly digital information landscape. Libraries that heed Palfrey’s call will find themselves poised to rise to the occasion of the twenty-first century and continue to fulfill their core societal functions: building communities, democratizing access to information, and educating the next generation.”
Maureen Sullivan, former President of the American Libraries Association
“John Palfrey, a true visionary who deeply understands the enduring importance of libraries, makes an urgent and compelling case for the transformation and sustainability of this critical education institution. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand why it is so critical to make a renewed investment in this essential democratic institution. His brilliant and lucid analysis offers a path, and describes how policy makers, community leaders, librarians, and technologists can work to ensure that libraries will enable everyone to be successful in a networked world.”
Luis Herrera, City Librarian of the San Francisco Public Library
“In BiblioTech, John Palfrey offers fresh perspectives and keen insights on the importance of libraries in the digital age. He reaffirms the value of libraries as purveyors of knowledge and information in democracies around the world. Yet, he reminds us that we must leverage our core values and skills as collaborators, networkers, and community builders for libraries to remain relevant. BiblioTech is a call to action for libraries to claim their role as key innovators in learning, addressing digital literacy, and bridging the technology divide in order to thrive in the Age of Google.”
Tony Marx, President and CEO of the New York Public Library
“John Palfrey insightfully charts the information revolution’s path through the world of libraries, where he has been an innovator. We are indeed at an exciting moment.”
Susan Hildreth, former Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services
“BiblioTech is a must read for anyone who cares about the future of libraries. John Palfrey has eloquently identified the essential role libraries play in keeping our democracy strong and has clearly articulated the challenges facing libraries today. This is a true wake-up call. We may very well fail our communities and society if we do not invest in library innovation that supports access and preservation of knowledge at scale.”
Jim Leach, former Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities
“In BiblioTech, John Palfrey sums up the seminal function libraries have played in inspiring and preserving creative thought over the ages. Then, with confident optimism, Palfrey makes it—counter intuitively—clear that the digital age has expanded the function and energy level of libraries. In a splintered world, these book-centric institutions have also become singularly safe and welcoming tech havens where the public can seek knowledge and gain access to wide-ranging perspectives about events and circumstances, real and fictional. It is the library where the imagination is un-shackled, where the past and present can be civilly probed and the future contemplated, alone or together in community. As a society we short-change these civilizing institutions at our peril.”
Deborah L Jacobs, former City Librarian of the Seattle Public Library
“John Palfrey has crafted a bold new vision and compelling argument for the power and value of public libraries. Perhaps more importantly he warns us of the unfortunate future for free societies if we simply stay the course and don’t ‘create a new nostalgia’ for the digital age. Many speeches have been given and books written on the topic of the ‘future library,’ but this is the finest and most inspiring call to true action I’ve read. BiblioTech should be required reading for not only every librarian, but every library supporter and policymaker.”
Doron Weber, Vice President of Programs and Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
“One of America’s top educators and library leaders makes a passionate argument for why libraries in the digital age are more important than ever to our democracy. In a lucid, conversational style that draws on his unique knowledge and experience, digital library pioneer John Palfrey offers a penetrating analysis of how libraries must transition to a digital, collaborative, and networked future while preserving the best of their traditional physical advantages. An urgent, eloquent call for the public option—indeed, the public obligation!—to step up and manage this historic shift to the digital future so that every member of society has equal access to knowledge and information that is responsibly presented and preserved for the benefit of all.”
Lawrence Lessig, author of Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It
“A powerful and beautifully crafted argument for extending the reach of one our culture's most important common resources: the library. But John Palfrey’s unique perspective—as an educator, an academic administrator, former law professor, and former law librarian—makes this a book not just about libraries, but also about culture in the digital age, and how much common culture depends upon the commitment to shared and public resources.”
Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor of History and University Librarian, Harvard University
“John Palfrey makes a convincing case for the ever-increasing importance of libraries in ‘the age of Google.’ With wit and wisdom, he shows how they can help create a democratic digital future—provided that we overcome a nostalgic view of their past and an inadequate understanding of their place in the current information environment.”
Brian Bannon, Commissioner, Chicago Public Library
“BiblioTech offers a historical account of libraries’ iconic past and chronicles the environmental shifts and dangers we may face if we fail to support and lead their next evolution. As libraries experience unprecedented instability, John Palfrey’s BiblioTech offers unique insight into the complex challenges and opportunities in the digital and physical world while giving hope for a successful future. This is essential reading for librarians, educators, policy makers, and all who care about the public institutions that support the citizens who are the basis of a vibrant democracy.”
David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, former Andrew W. Mellon Director of the New York Public Libraries
“In BiblioTech, John Palfrey challenges the library and archival communities to pursue new strategies to shape, rather than be shaped by, the digital revolution. This is a call to action for these institutions to reinvent themselves to meet the challenges of tomorrow’s world. BiblioTech argues for the creation of a new nostalgia, one that reaffirms the essential role of these institutions in a democratic society—to inform, to engage, and to delight.”
Amy Ryan, President of the Boston Public Library
“BiblioTech is a call to arms to foster democracy by supporting libraries. John Palfrey takes the reader on a library journey from the libraries of antiquity through the Carnegie era and into the digital age and beyond. He challenges all of us to keep the library relevant—as an information resource, cultural archive, a community gathering place, and most powerfully, as a cornerstone of democracy for an informed citizenry.”
Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
“Whether you think you know a lot about libraries today and in the future—or feel clueless about both issues—you will be enlightened by John Palfrey’s thoughtful, timely, and lucid presentation.”
About the Author
John Palfrey is Head of School at Phillips Andover Academy. Palfrey led the effort to reorganize the Harvard Law School Library, and is the founding chairman of the Digital Public Library of America. The author of several books including Born Digital, Palfrey lives in Andover, Massachusetts.
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Google and the Librarians
By Ron Titus
John Palfrey channels passion and desire in making his case as to why libraries are relevant and more needed in this age of Google then ever. He works on presenting a rational, yet passionate plea for the role libraries played in America's past and the part he thinks it needs to play in the present and future for the betterment of society.
Palfrey provides a list of what he considers the problems facing today's libraries: public use (and understanding of libraries); physical space versus virtual space; a desire to change libraries from locations to platforms (although he does acknowledge that hybrid libraries will be a necessity for the near future); networking for collection and preservation; and a decent chapter on copyright. He ends the book with a ten item list of what he thinks need to be done to make libraries relevant in the future.
Despite his dry, passionate arguments, Palfrey's list strike this reader (a veteran librarian for 30 years) as well meaning, overdone, and often contradictory. They resonate with similar calls of action that have rung out over the years, been applauded by librarians and done little but deforest the land. Despite all the pleas and posturing, I foresee libraries continue to astound critics and supporters in the future despite all the grandiose plans made by library honchos because of the front line librarians' impact on students and patrons.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Lawyer's Moot Point
By Cathy Gontar
Another work opposing digital and print. To use legal term, it's moot. We are beyond this and so this work is redundant if not anachronistic.
A now decades old discussion. Libraries have done wonderful work of making their holdings available online
in catalogs and full text. As a teaching librarian in my experience in both public and academic libraries there
is still great demand and often preference for print versions. Each format has its advantages. What researcher will prefer seeing the
manuscript online to in situ if he has the choice? What student will prefer reading Moby Dick online to holding
the novel in his hands? Text searching tools in conjunction with online texts are marvelous.
We can go on forever comparing and contrasting advantages and disadvantages but the bottom line is
you will be hard put to find humanists who will separate from print.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Enjoyable
By Autamme_dot_com
If you have more than a passing interest in reading books and have grown up knowing what a good library is, this is a book you should be looking at. If you haven’t, well, you need to discover what you are missing…
Despite Google being infinitely more powerful and more responsive than a traditional library, there is still something to be said about a library, staffed by professional librarians, that we should not throw away and lose. Clearly libraries need to keep up with the digital world, they can act as crucial staging posts and trusted guides to disparate information. Sure, we can all enter our search terms into Google and other search engines and hope we can find what we are looking for, yet often you need to step off the beaten track and then the power of a good librarian comes into focus.
This is a fascinating, thoughtful and challenging book that looks at how libraries must change to remain relevant and present in the modern-day digital world, especially as funding for the traditional library is under increasing pressure. Many younger people are not learning to love libraries nor understand their purpose. It is not enough to look back at the old days with misty eyes, there can and must be a place for libraries and information retrieval in the future. What we think of a library today might be different tomorrow.
Maybe this reviewer is lucky: he grew up to understand and appreciate a good library and still is an active library user today. Some of the changes in public and academic libraries are hard to accept (making noise in a library space still feels wrong) but other changes are changes for the good. Being able to log in to a remote library’s computer system to use a search database sure beats traipsing down to the physical building to use a card index and hope to find a match, before looking for a journal article in a stack or on microfilm. A job that could take hours (or weeks if the journal had to be ordered from the other side of the world) can be done in minutes now, all from one’s sofa. Reading this book can only underline the importance of a library, the importance of necessary change and the importance of keeping the library relevant for future generations.
Of course, if you are not sure you are going to be really sold on this book there is another option: visit a, err, library and avail yourself of its services…
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