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Library of the 21st century symposium, state library of Victoria, 23 February 2006.(Conference notes)
Two hundred people at this one-day symposium held at the State Library of Victoria heard a range of papers from key Australian and international decision-makers, commentators and industry leaders, addressing the question posed in the introductory session by Sam Lipski, President of the Library Board of Victoria: what is the library of the twenty-first century? Those who attended were treated to a range of papers covering a variety of issues grouped into four themes: libraries and community, libraries and learning, libraries and collaboration, and libraries and the creative economy.
Joel Kotkin, American journalist and academic, gave an account of the rise of cities, the roles of libraries and learning within these communities, and the gradual democratisation of reading, libraries and knowledge. The key issues he urged listeners to consider was how…
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