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标题：Occupy Wall Street and the myth of technological death of the library
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作者：Jessa Lingel
期刊名称：First Monday
电子版ISSN：1396-0466
出版年度：2012
卷号：17
期号：8
DOI：10.5210/fm.v17i8.3845
语种：English
出版社：University of Illinois at Chicago Library
摘要：Within a week of the emergence of Occupy Wall Street, a library surfaced in the midst of the protest. Staffed by volunteers and comprised entirely of donated materials, the People’s Library offers books and media to the public, provides basic reference assistance and includes a fully-searchable digital catalog. In this article, I analyze the People’s Library in terms of larger discussions of libraries, technology and activism. Drawing on personal experiences volunteering at the Library as well as text from the Library’s blog, I argue that the People’s Library offers two counter arguments to conventional claims about the public library: first, that libraries are being existentially threatened by the emergence of digital technologies and second, that a library’s activist ethics are located solely or predominantly in the content of its collection. Using the People’s Library as a kind of conceptual case study, I explore the connections between public libraries, digital technologies and activist ethics.
关键词：protest;library;DIY;digital media