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Return of the Coffeehouse: How to turn your library into an ideas factory
The folks at It’s Not About the Books write about the Return of the Coffeehouse: How to turn your library into an ideas factory. This is a thought-provoking article about yet another innovative role libraries can play today.
“Throughout history libraries have been highly effective as what we might call idea storehouses. Universities and schools have been highly effective as idea communicators. But, particularly at a time when many are questioning the relevance of libraries (thinking in terms of the ‘storehouse’ model), might we develop libraries further as idea factories? The place you go to generate ideas in the first place?”
