Libraries as Place
This exhibit looks at the library as an evolving place - a repository for the collection and preservation of knowledge from the earliest times to its more recent function as an intellectual and cultural gathering place. Community engagement and advocacy loom large in both today’s public and academic libraries, with the presentation of initiatives ranging from book clubs to poetry readings to cross-national efforts to salvage items under environmental or other immediate threats. It also shines a light on the responsibility that libraries have had through the ages for the preservation of information and the data about that information (“metadata”).
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