The article goes on to detail the extent of the new library and winds its way around the titles premise. Of course anyone who has ever worked in an archive knows that the brick and mortar portion of the library exists primarily as the controlled preservation center and "Corporate headquarters" of any collection. While much of our work can be done remotely there will always be a need for physical control. This article misses the opportunity to convey just how much more global the library experience is becoming. We can no longer consider each library outlet a primary servant of its local user population. We have to examine our users in terms of our unique content. Unique content has a global draw and thus over time will actually be used more then locally accessible material. Whether this shifts our resource allocation and our emphasis is on on our users from the local to the global is still hotly debated of course but opinions are and will continue to shift.
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