{"id":62,"date":"2011-01-04T10:04:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T10:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/?p=62"},"modified":"2011-01-04T10:04:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T10:04:49","slug":"the-end-of-academic-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2011\/01\/04\/the-end-of-academic-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of academic libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my first real day back at work after Xmas and New Year, and my jury service. \u00a0I abjectly failed to get writing over the festive break so I am cheating and just directing your attention to a short piece in the <em>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Death-by-Irony-How-Librarians\/125767\/\">death of academic libraries<\/a>. I do sympathise with much of the writer&#8217;s analysis, viz. that librarians&#8217; success in embracing the digital has made their print collections and their own activity redundant. \u00a0I agree with some commenters that he overstates things a little, though by how much remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>I think the piece is intended as a wake up call, urging us to start &#8220;plotting a realistic path to the future&#8221; for library services. \u00a0That task is very much on my mind right now.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to be back with a proper post later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my first real day back at work after Xmas and New Year, and my jury service. \u00a0I abjectly failed to get writing over the festive break so I am cheating and just directing your attention to a short &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2011\/01\/04\/the-end-of-academic-libraries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}