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Reflection Blog: Your Neighborhood’s Living Room – The Library as Third Space
Feature Image Source: The Gong at Dokk1, which is is connected the maternity ward in Aarhus. Parents can ring The Gong when their new baby is born. In 1931, S. R. Ranganathan, father of library science in India, famously theorized five laws of library science: Books are for use. Every reader his/her book. Every book its reader. Save the time of the reader. The library is a growing organism. Today I would propose a 6th law: Every person their library. The library represents an important third space in modern communities. The third space is a place that is neither work nor home, a neutral space where a person can connect…