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The Noun Project, Cultural Heritage Symbols. Making Libraries More Shareable. Libraries are really good at lending.

Making Libraries More Shareable

It’s who they are, it’s what they do. A growing number of materials, including ebooks, fishing poles, cake pans, art and tools, can all be borrowed from libraries. But as libraries transform themselves into 21st century institutions, some innovators are looking beyond libraries solely as lenders and seeing ways that they could be hubs for the sharing economy. E-Books, Libraries and Democracy. Public phone booths in New York repurposed into libraries. Www.ala.org/offices/sites/ala.org.offices/files/content/oitp/publications/policybriefs/confronting_the_futu.pdf. NextSpace [OCLC - Membership]