Can Architects Save Libraries from the Internet?

theodp writes "Slate has an interesting photo essay exploring the question of how to build a public library in the age of Google, Wikipedia, and Kindle. The grand old reading rooms and stacks of past civic monuments are giving way to a new library-as-urban-hangout concept, as evidenced by Seattle's Starbucks-meets-mega-bookstore central library and Salt Lake City's shop-lined education mall. Without some dramatic changes, The Extinction Timeline predicts libraries will R.I.P. in 2019."

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Re:The better question is: should they?

[Naughty Bob]

I don't think you can get a better question than 'Can Architects Save Libraries from the Internet?', only different ones:

Can jealousy save biscuits from a motorbike?

Can mice protect oscilloscopes from Scientology?

Should tardigrades steal tarte-tatin from the middle-eight of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird?

Tune in next week, same bat-time etc. etc....