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Three Libraries - Seattle, Stuttgart and San Diego
The book is dead - long live the library
The more obituaries about the book get published, the bigger new libraries get. Will they, like Dinosaurs, collapse under their enormous weight and go extinct due to their insatiable feeding needs or are these big bold libraries an example of adaptation, proof that the book itself may not be dead and the physical place for knowledge is thriving? The American Library Association certainly thinks the latter is true. To be sure to address
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Nikolaus Philipsen FAIA
Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
Baltimore MD
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