{"id":261,"date":"2014-06-13T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2014\/06\/13\/libraries-matter\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:28:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:28:55","slug":"libraries-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2014\/06\/13\/libraries-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Libraries Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-rA7CQA8N3_g\/U5sSk31In8I\/AAAAAAAAAIc\/jyK1JXReeR8\/s1600\/HuntLibrary2.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"James B. Hunt Library, NCSU\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-rA7CQA8N3_g\/U5sSk31In8I\/AAAAAAAAAIc\/jyK1JXReeR8\/s1600\/HuntLibrary2.jpg\" height=\"241\" title=\"James B. Hunt Library, NCSU\" width=\"320\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\"><i>Image courtesy of James B. Hunt Library, North Carolina State University<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We often hear that libraries are losing relevance in the Internet Age; we have users and funders who say, &#8220;why do we need libraries &#8211; can&#8217;t you find most everything online?&#8221;&nbsp; While the web has made an incredible amount of information available at our fingertips, libraries continue to play a vital role in communities, both guiding users to find the most useful information and in providing those without Internet access a lifeline to information.<\/p>\n<p>A colleague recently shared this short documentary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/video\/index\/371084\/why-libraries-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Why Libraries Matter<\/i><\/a> that depicts a day in the life of the New York Public Library. While certainly showing a public library perspective, many of these issues translate to academic libraries as well.<br \/>Share your comments and consider how you can support libraries in your community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image courtesy of James B. Hunt Library, North Carolina State University We often hear that libraries are losing relevance in the Internet Age; we have users and funders who say, &#8220;why do we need libraries &#8211; can&#8217;t you find most <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2014\/06\/13\/libraries-matter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Libraries Matter<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272,345,346,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}