Reading report #3

The library has been a place of preserving history. It has saved the written history of people in books and their stories. It has also kept alive great works of famous people such as Da Vinci. The library has had many uses over the years and its uses continue to change. This article describes the direction that the library is heading and the history of how it got to be where it is today. The written word has been around for centuries but, the printed word was not mass produced until the 1500's. It was during this time that Johann Gutenburg invented the printing press and the amount of books during produces exploded. Great men like Andrew Carnegie also helped by donating money to help new libraries being built. Libraries are changing though and heading in new directions. The same as technology. The technology that we have now will not be current in ten years. There will be faster and more effect ways to access the web and to store information. It is thought that the library will soon become a place of housing culture more than housing information. It is also thought that search technology will continue to get more effecient and faster.
This article brings alot of interesting ideas to light. The fact that technology is forever changign is easy to see. Living in the information age I have been able to bare witness to most of this. It is during my lifetime that I have growen up with the internet. As I have gotten older and more advanced, so has it. Although I do not really agree that the library will ever be done with housing books. I feel that the written word is something that people long. I do not feel that people will ever be completely done with it or not have a longing for the written word. Therefore I feel that the library will never be a thing of the past and that it will always be a place for people to come and check out books. Technology is always changing though and I do agree that one day we will reach a point where smaller storage is not possible. It will be other advances for computers that will become the new thing then.