Bro. IDK about other countries, but In India, Library Owners have changed the definition of Libraries. Now it is basically a room with desks and computers where people come to study with their own study material instead of having their own collection of books, study material (neither physical nor digital). It is a nice place to study but it ain’t a library, it is just a study room for fuck’s sake.
No it is not. Libraries have been used for >1000 years to gatekeep information and education by kings and churches. Digital media has democratized this.
There really is no point in taking up campus space to store very expensive paper that is hard to find, and can only be accessed by one person at a time.
My university is converting libraries to study spaces. Many modern scientific journals are only digital.
“Libraries providing access to books is gatekeeping because only one person can check one out at a time. Removing books from libraries democratizes information.” –Dumbass
Pune, Mumbai, NCR, Jaipur. These are the places where I have searched for a library and found study rooms instead. Normal Libraries still exist but they are not doing well in Tier 1 cities.
I visited Chennai Book Fair 2 years ago. Man they have a big reading culture. I loved it. We middies and northies are still stuck with cow politics lol.
Bro. IDK about other countries, but In India, Library Owners have changed the definition of Libraries. Now it is basically a room with desks and computers where people come to study with their own study material instead of having their own collection of books, study material (neither physical nor digital). It is a nice place to study but it ain’t a library, it is just a study room for fuck’s sake.
Thats a bit sad.
No it is not. Libraries have been used for >1000 years to gatekeep information and education by kings and churches. Digital media has democratized this.
There really is no point in taking up campus space to store very expensive paper that is hard to find, and can only be accessed by one person at a time.
My university is converting libraries to study spaces. Many modern scientific journals are only digital.
“Libraries providing access to books is gatekeeping because only one person can check one out at a time. Removing books from libraries democratizes information.” –Dumbass
Where in India? I’ve never seen this in the South.
Pune, Mumbai, NCR, Jaipur. These are the places where I have searched for a library and found study rooms instead. Normal Libraries still exist but they are not doing well in Tier 1 cities.
Sheesh. You can always find books in a library in Chennai. In fact there are lending libraries where they only lend.
I visited Chennai Book Fair 2 years ago. Man they have a big reading culture. I loved it. We middies and northies are still stuck with cow politics lol.
Chennai also has a huge political book culture with a ton of Periyarists, Ambedkarites and Marxists.