I thought this statement from the "really modern library" page was especially significant:
"The call for entries will go out to as broad a community as possible, including designers, artists, programmers, hackers, librarians, archivists, activists, educators, students and creative amateurs. Our present intent is to raise a large sum of money to administer the competition and to have a pool for prizes that is sufficiently large and meaningful that it can compel significant attention from the sort of minds we want working on these problems."
Bernie Sloan
Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_ND.EDU> wrote:
A think tank called The Future Of The Book will be sponsoring a few
discussions called the Really Modern Library to "shed light on the
big questions about future accessibility and usability of analog
culture in a digital, networked world":
Our aim with the Really Modern Library project is not to build a
physical or even a virtual library, but to stimulate new thinking
about mass digitization and, through the generation of inspiring
new designs, interfaces and conceptual models, to spur innovation
in publishing, media, libraries, academia and the arts.
The meeting in October will have two purposes. The first is to
deepen and extend our understanding of the goals of the project
and how they might best be achieved. The second is to begin
outlining plans for a major international design competition
calling for proposals, sketches, and prototypes for a
hypothetical "really modern library."
http://tinyurl.com/25nnnl
In my mind, their discussions are apropos to the topic of this
mailing list. Let's keep our ears to the ground.
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Eric Lease Morgan
University Libraries of Notre Dame
(574) 631-8604
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Received on Mon Oct 08 2007 - 19:55:34 EDT