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Importance of Library as Place

Library buildings, and the services and resources available in person, can never be completely replaced. Physically going to a library provides a unique experience and the value of this experience needs to be preserved. According to a recent article, “The anniversary of the New York Public Library’s main building is an occasion to talk about why the library needs to be a place as well as an ethereal mass of data residing somewhere in ‘the cloud.’ Not everything we need or want to know about the world can be transmitted via a screen, and not every experience can be digitized.”

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