Public libraries are the crazy, radical ideas that might save society | Kinder Institute for Urban Research
Andy Olinkinder.rice.edu
Public libraries are the crazy, radical ideas that might save society | Kinder Institute for Urban Research
A public library today has information to improve people’s lives. We are an enabler; we are a connector.
Shannon Mattern • Library as Infrastructure
ON LIBRARIESI was visiting public libraries and ultimately writing my dissertation about them and realizing it’s not about people engaging with kind of romanticized documents. There is some of that in the library, but it’s also compromised bodies interacting with compromised bodies, often the most marginalized people in societies and also really... See more