What is the role of the library in the information age \u2014 is it a repository for the great art, a building with free web access, or \u2014 as was the initial intention \u2014 a place for learning and research? Can it adapt to changing times while staying true to its original mission?\u00a0Jonathan Zittrain is the director of the Harvard Law School Library, and the author of “Why Libraries (Still) Matter.”\u00a0 “Libraries are often the places of last resort to find that thing that nobody bothered to hang onto, but that they later regret losing,” Zittrain said Tuesday on Boston Public Radio. “That’s kind of the Norway seed bank \u2014 that after the apocalypse we can reboot everything courtesy of a handful of the libraries of last-resort, of which the Boston Public Library is also thought of [as] one.”<\/p>\n
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