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• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/galleries/the-world-s-most-beautiful-libraries/upper-lusatian-library-of-sciences-goerlitz--germany/

  Ian Wilder

  Feb 10, 2019
• Ian Wilder

  

  Best ‘brainy’ books of this decade

  The Guardian - Killian Fox, Poppy Noor

  In recent years, we’ve read excellent nonfiction on race in the US, courtesy of writers such as Ta-Nehisi Coates, Claudia Rankine and Jesmyn Ward. Reni Eddo-Lodge’s superbly accessible book was a great addition to the British canon. It is impressively intersectional in its approach, talking about …

• Ian Wilder

  

  How the ‘brainy’ book became a publishing phenomenon

  The Guardian - Alex Preston

  This is a story about a book that just kept selling, catching publishers, booksellers and even its author off guard. In seeking to understand the reasons for the book’s unusually protracted shelf life, we uncover important messages about our moment in history, about the still-vital place of reading …

• https://www.utne.com/community/big-celebration-for-little-free-libraries-zm0z16fzsel?newsletter=1&spot=headline&utm_source=wcemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UTR%20Uplifter%2012.25.17&utm_term=UTR_eNews&_wcsid=05BFB734C4CD539AE9AA0E286B70DE660CD83620A56156C8

  Ian Wilder

  Dec 25, 2017
• “By taking the best elements of community hubs, and combining them with the services and infrastructure that libraries already have in place, public libraries can break the traditional value-cost trade-off, and deliver exceptional value to the community at low cost.”

  Ian Wilder

  How Can Libraries Stay Relevant In The Digital Age?

  blueoceanstrategy.com - Elizabeth

  John Pateman, CEO of Thunder Bay Public Library in Ontario, Canada, argues that public libraries need to make a blue ocean shift to stay relevant in …

• Ian Wilder

  

  How Will Public Libraries Serve an Increasingly Unequal Society? | Essay | Zócalo Public Square

  zocalopublicsquare.org - By Ignacio Albarracín | September 29, 2016

  Trying to predict the future of anything—let alone public libraries—is a tricky task. But unequivocally we can say this: Libraries are not about to …