This San Francisco Library Collects Print Materials You Were Never Meant to See | KQED

A public library today has information to improve people’s lives. We are an enabler; we are a connector.

“librarians are what the internet is aching for—people on task to care about the past, with respect to the past and also to what it shall bequeath to the future.” Can we reimagine libraries for the digital age?

to save, to add to our collection, the action both etches it a little deeper into our hearts and creates a context around the artifact itself, whether text, song, image, or video. The context is not just for ourselves but for other people, the knit-together, shared context of culture at large. That’s what Benjamin described when he wrote, “The phen

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Public libraries are often seen as “opportunity institutions,” opening doors to, and for, the disenfranchised.