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playplaylearn OP t1_jaakub0 wrote

Reply to comment by ViskerRatio in The Day the Librarians Disappeared - We Can't Let This Story Come True! by playplaylearn

Oddly anti-book given the subreddit.

Also, I would suggest that is kind of the point of The Day the Librarians Disappeared. School libraries serve so many other roles: meeting spaces, learning commons, exploration/maker spaces, and just a safe space for students.

Maybe I am just waxing poetic, but I still see a need for school libraries. And a need for books, be they digital or physical. Current attempts to break down systems like libraries and classrooms are truly insidious.

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ViskerRatio t1_jaaqh3o wrote

> School libraries serve so many other roles: meeting spaces, learning commons, exploration/maker spaces, and just a safe space for students.

This is really the point I'm making. Those 'other roles' are not inherently linked to the 'library' function. It's just that as libraries themselves declined in utility, the space was re-purposed to fill those roles. But there is no reason you can't fulfill those functions without the 'library' part - and, indeed, this is increasingly what you see on college campuses.

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hobbitzswift t1_jaavthv wrote

I think you don't understand what the library has been used for historically.

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3pbc t1_jaanbbl wrote

>Oddly anti-book

Nothing they wrote was anti-book

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