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    Reflection Blogging – Hyperlinked Communities

    So far, there are a lot of ideas and threads that this course is pulling together to demonstrate what libraries have been (Library 1.0), what they are (Library 1.5 – 2.0) and what they can be (Library 3.0?).  I appreciated the YouTube video by Ciara Eastell at TedX Exeter, where she highlighted the many places where public spaces were closed due to civil unrest or weather disturbances, and then reminded people that libraries were open in these places and during these moments for the very reason they were closed everywhere else. These are the spaces that play a critical role in either giving people a safe place to decompress like…