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4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Across the county, librarians are fighting to keep libraries open and books on the shelves. On this week’s show, hear what the American Library Association is doing to stand up to unprecedented challenges, and what a suit against the Internet Archive could mean for the future of e-books. Plus, how the legend of the ancient Library of Alexandria continues to inspire utopian projects today.

1. Emily Drabinski [@edrabinski], incoming President of the American Library Association, on the greatest threats to libraries today, and how to fight them. Listen.

2. Nitish Pahwa [@pahwa_nitish], web editor at Slate, on how a lawsuit against the Internet Archive could affect how libraries lend out e-books for good. Listen.

2. Molly Schwartz [@mollyfication], OTM producer, takes us inside the quest for a "universal library," from the Library of Alexandria to today. Listen.

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0:00.0	The library!
0:02.0	Every book ever written, whole continents of...
0:04.5	Jeffrey Archer and Bridget Jones,
0:06.5	Monty Python's big red book.
0:08.0	On this week's on the media,
0:10.0	libraries, what thereafter?
0:12.0	Who's after them?
0:14.0	It's not about the book.
0:16.0	It is about wanting the library itself to disappear.
0:19.0	It's about how we view books and how we view writing and how we treasure and arrange knowledge.
0:26.0	People can do a lot of stuff. Humanity in general can lose a lot of knowledge out of nowhere for no reason.
0:32.0	We can actually achieve the great vision of everything ever published.
0:38.0	Everything that was ever meant for distribution,
0:40.0	available to anybody in the world.
0:42.0	So I've never worked in a library that didn't have a bucket under a leak or a tart over the archives.
0:48.0	The dream of accessing the knowledge of the whole world and the risk of losing it all.
0:55.0	On the next on the media from WNYC.
1:01.0	From WNYC in New York,
1:03.0	this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:05.0	I'm the ballot in this week's midterm elections.
1:09.0	We're candidates and legislation that will define this nation's values not just in Washington,
1:15.0	but in every community.
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