Libraries of the Future as Depicted in Film
I’ve been writing and thinking a lot about libraries and the future, so this blog by Australian librarian Tom Goodfellow caught my eye. He compares the depiction of libraries in some science-fiction film classics, including Time Machine and Soylent Green.
“The astonishing trust displayed in libraries by science fiction film-makers reveals a faith in the public library ethos apparently unaffected by the disillusion with other government agencies, and indeed human nature, so evident in this form of cinema. Somehow, the form which places imagination above all else finds it impossible to imagine a deliberately biased or devious library. It is an indication of the respect with which the public library movement is held by the population as a whole.”
Full article can be found at: Revelations.