What happens in a few years from now when they switch format or one of these
big businesses goes bankrupt? Does that mean all the e-books from that format
are no longer valid?
Equally important, the economic divide is real. It seems to me that we are
moving into an increasingly privatized world. Those who have money are buying
their own books, either print or e-books. The library is there to serve all
the people, not just those with the money to buy the latest technology.
Peggy Kurtz
Hevesi Jewish Heritage Library
Central Queens YM&YWHA
67-09 108 Street
Forest Hills, NY 11375
pku...@cqy.org
718 268-5011, ext. 151
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From: hasafran-boun...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu on behalf of Etta Gold
Sent: Wed 1/23/2013 9:10 PM
To: boyc...@hollanderbooks.com; Aaron Kuperman
Cc: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Bookless libraries
Beautifully articulated, Henry.
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From: Henry Hollander, Bookseller
To: Aaron Kuperman
Cc: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Bookless libraries
Dear Aaron,
Thank you for identifying a serious problem in our
libraries in our society as a whole. Despite carrying a stock in the tens of
thousands of titles I have no scrolls currently on offer in my inventory. In my
personal collection I have only four scrolls (not counting piano rolls).
Seriously, the transition from real books to digital
books is not an equivalent transition to the transition from scroll to codex.
As of yet most digital books are not even routinely better or cheaper than
paper. Libraries are being asked to change from a financial model that was
understandable to one that includes a variety of models and relies on a variety
of non-interacting formats.
Bookless libraries is a radical concept in
librarianship. It is being advocated as a one sized fit all solution for the
future of libraries. As a blanket model that certainty has to be false, at
least in the short run (10-20 years). Library schools are being turned into
Schools of Information Technology. As we go forward more and more of the
graduates of these institutions will be unfamiliar with how to handle actual
books. As a result they will have a bias away from actual books. However, it is
now and will be (for the foreseeable future) a decision made logically, but
will be one made only out of a bias for the new.
Ultimately the question for me is this. Do we really
want to jam our entire life onto a screen? Is that a wise choice and even if it
is what are the costs of making that choice?
All the best,
Henry Hollander
> Should we panic that our libaries lack scrolls? Can you imagine a good
> library without any scrolls? What about tablets (the small clay ones with
> squiggling staff scratched on them - probably what Avraham used to use)?
>
> Aaron
>
> This is not an official policy statement from my employer (which, BTW,
> does have both scrolls and tablets though we do lack native speakers of
> sumerian to help catalog them).
>
>
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Rachel Haus wrote:
>
>
>> I read the article, as well as the couple comments below it and one
>> really resonated. While it seems as if everyone has a updated computer,
>> tablet, etc, not everyone does because not everyone can afford one. Our
>> family of 5 currently shares a single computer because we cannot afford
>> more. While we migtht save up for an extra computer, what about the
>> family with far more limited resources?
>
> The comment made at the end of the article suggested that those without
> the means for technology might love to read at home, but would be out of
> luck should all reading material be converted to digital form. Tablets
> might be lent out, but small libraries in small communities like mine
> can't possibly afford even to offer ebooks, let alone to invest in
> tablets. I see a disturbing class divide here for basic access to
> knowledge.
>
> Rachel Haus
> Library Director
> Congregation of Moses Library
> Kalamazoo MI
> rhaus_...@yahoo.com
>
>
>>________________________________
>>
From: Emily Goldberg <exgoldb...@gmail.com>
>>To: Hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu
>>Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:39 PM
>>Subject: [ha-Safran] Bookless libraries
>>
>>
>>An interesting article:
>>
>>
>>http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/bookmarks/2013/01/libraries_go_mostly_bookless.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2
>>
>>
>>Is this the future for Jewish libraries, particularly synagogue
>> libraries?
>>
>>
>>Emily Goldberg
>>Mowshowitz Library
>>Hillcrest Jewish Center
>>Flushing, NY
>>exgoldb...@gmail.com
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> Aaron Wolfe Kuperman
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> This is NOT an official communication from the Library of Congress.
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