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如果您認為 iPad、Kindle Google 圖書 的成功已經解決了電子書是否能勝任實體書的工作,那就忘了這個想法吧。《Slate》雜誌在 11 月 16 日又發表了一篇關於書籍實體重要性的文章,這篇文章可能沒有為這場辯論增加任何新內容,但它提醒我們,人們仍然對書籍作為實體物品的必要性持有強烈的意見。然後在 11 月 19 日th《赫芬頓郵報》發表了這篇文章,這篇文章同樣描述了電子出版界不斷變化的世界,儘管其成功與否一直存在相當大的爭議。而這封寫給其他各種讚美書面表達實體性的情書於 12 月在《金融時報》雜誌上發表。所有這些都表明,人們仍在談論和思考實體在我們與文字關係中的重要性。我甚至不會想表達對這些作者是否正確的看法,但可以肯定的是,正在建造剛剛開放的 北卡羅來納州立大學詹姆斯·B·亨特圖書館 的人們對此持有不同的看法。

其建立者表示,亨特圖書館在開放時將 “成為全國最好的學習和協作空間”

而且它是一個閉架圖書館。


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我自己曾 大聲疾呼反對閉架的概念,其他人也對 紐約公共圖書館提出了同樣的問題,所以當我有機會與系統設計背後的人員一起參觀詹姆斯·B·亨特圖書館時,我欣然前往。這段影片讓您對我的所見所聞有所瞭解。

羅利《新聞與觀察家報》的這篇報道提供了一些最新的精美圖片。亨特圖書館已經是一個令人驚歎的地方,既然它已經開放,我可以與它一起工作,看看它在實現目標方面做得如何,那麼我將有更多內容要分享。但再說一遍:在新的資訊經濟中,首先引起大家注意的是它將擁有閉架書庫。正如宣告所表明的那樣,圖書館設計師將圖書館視為人們一起工作和創造的地方,可以訪問實體書籍和電子資訊。它不是一個裝滿書的大盒子。

正如我所說,還有更多內容即將到來。感謝 資訊科技主管 Maurice York、數字圖書館副館長 Kristin Antelman、 學習空間和資本管理副館長 Patrick Deaton、 以及 Wayne Clark,他的頭銜確實是北卡羅來納州立大學工程學院下一代 IT 系統研究所 (ITng) 副研究主任。

 

 

Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city's eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as ESPN, Backpacker, and Fortune. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the Nashville City Paper. He has taught at such colleges as Berry College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His books include Defining the Wind, about the Beaufort Scale of wind force, and No-Man's Lands, about retracing the journey of Odysseus.

His most recent book, On the Grid, was his sixth. His work has been included in such compilations as Appalachian Adventure and in such anthologies as Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, The Appalachian Trail Reader and Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel.

For 2014-2015 Scott is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, which is funding his work on the Lawson Trek, an effort to retrace the journey of explorer John Lawson through the Carolinas in 1700-1701.

He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence, and their two sons.

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