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Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information. In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues that anyone seeking to participate in the 21st century needs to understand how to find and use the vast stores of information available online. And libraries, which play a crucial role in making these skills and information available, are at risk. In order to survive our rapidly modernizing world and dwindling government funding, libraries must make the transition to a digital future as soon as possible--by digitizing print material and ensuring that born-digital material is publicly available online. Not all of these changes will be easy for libraries to implement. But as Palfrey boldly argues, these modifications are vital if we hope to save libraries and, through them, the American democratic ideal.

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"A significant wake-up call to increase citizens' access to knowledge and culture, which requires both public awareness and financial support.-- ""Kirkus"" ""Palfrey is adept at explaining the struggles libraries face with technologies that constrain as much as they liberate...[and] is particularly good at explaining new legal challenges to preserving information."" -- ""Washington Post"""

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John Palfrey is the author or coauthor of several books, including Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives, Intellectual Property Strategy, and Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems. He is Head of School at Phillips Andover Academy. He also led the effort to reorganize the Harvard Law School Library and is the founding chairman of the Digital Public Library of America. John lives in Andover, Massachusetts. A veteran voice artist, Tom Zingarelli has produced and narrated many audiobooks in the last several years. He has also recorded books for the Connecticut State Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. His voice was featured on the popular PBS children's television program Between the Lions and in the off-Broadway production of Ruthless, the Musical.

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