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| Sou Fujimoto, Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, 2010 |
"The Internet is now the
library of the past. Where the public
library has historically served as the primary source of information gathering and dissemination, we now look to this new virtual, infinitely large
library that can be accessed anywhere at any time as the
Library of the present.
As a result, the primary roles of today’s physical libraries have shifted. Libraries of the past focused primarily on individualized information consumption. Communal aspects of interaction and information dissemination now represent the core mission of the
library when information is more easily accessible. The silent grand beaux-arts reading rooms of New York or Boston have of the past been transformed into flexible communal “living rooms” in Seattle.
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