Libraries are powerful precisely because they’re spaces of potentiality. They are, as the Aspen report puts it, “platforms,” foundations on which many structures can be built. To speak of their future, then, should be to speak of a collective future, one from which none are excluded.
Over on Slate, Jacob Brogan looks at how libraries are changing international development. Complement with Ursula K. Le Guin’s piercing case for the cultural value of libraries. (via explore-blog)