How libraries can survive in the new media ecosystem
Lee Rainie spoke to librarians in Barcelona (May 19, 2010) and Madrid (May 21, 2010) about how libraries can survive in the new media ecosystem. Includes speech text and slides.
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Overview of responses Background Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has an even grander vision for what the web can be. He and his allies have been working through the World Wide Web Consortium on an evolving initiative they call the semantic web. Berners-Lee and co-authors wrote in Scientific American in […]
Thanks to Fred Stutzman for his work on the survey and literature review for this project. Thanks to Helen Ho, Elliot Panek, Nat Poor and the folks at Resolution Research for their work on the focus groups. Thanks to Kathryn Zickuhr for her work on the graphics in this report, and Katie Brown for her […]
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