The Library in the Age of Digital Reproduction
(for Artspace New Haven)
by Wayne Bivens-Tatum
Academic Librarian:
On Libraries, Rhetoric, Poetry, History, & Moral Philosophy
Princeton University
October 27, 2011
I barely remember a time when I wasn’t an active library user. From the first grade I recall trips to the school library, where the librarian would seat us at common tables and place a number of books at the center for us to choose among. Instead of choosing one of those books, I always got permission to wander the shelves and find one on my own. Even then, my relationship to the library was active, questing, questioning, and the library was a place I enjoyed visiting. The library was the place with knowledge. It had an aura. [READ MORE...]