The Public Library and Shared Knowledge

Traditionally, the public library is conceived as a space and device for sharing its constituted knowledge, giving an encyclopaedic visibility and maximal accessibility to a diversity of points of view. The digital revolution can give the illusion that, henceforth, it will intervene more directly in the creation and mediation of contents. However, in a world of generalised informational competition, its role will be, more than ever, to step back, to favour the transversality of vision to manage public space for knowledge.
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