Are Libraries in a Slow Decline?

Are Libraries in a Slow Decline?

 


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Asking “Are libraries in a slow decline?” is like asking whether shoes are going away. Most people wear them, most people like them, shoe companies keep improving them, we keep buying them. Nobody asks whether or not we’ll have shoes in 50 years. So why ask this question about libraries? One reason is the societal pressures institutions like libraries have always faced, and do so even more now — the insidious anti-commons hypocrisy and cultural warfare that seeks to curtail public resource sharing and free speech rights.