{"id":11316,"date":"2018-09-25T13:20:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T17:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11316"},"modified":"2018-09-25T13:20:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T17:20:29","slug":"the-view-from-what-used-to-be-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11316","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The View From What Used to Be the Library&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I have a new column<\/strong> published at the Intercollegiate Review site today, in which <a href=\"https:\/\/home.isi.org\/benefits-digital-age\">I meditate<\/a> on the place (if any) of the library in today&#8217;s educational institutions.<\/p>\n<p>But mostly I play it for laughs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here\u2019s where it would be easy to launch into a screed against this newfangled digital information age. Shelby Foote once said, \u201cA university is just a group of buildings centered around a library.\u201d This was, of course, pure idealism. I doubt any institution of higher learning has literally prioritized the library since that one in Alexandria burned down.<\/p>\n<p>And who am I to complain? If digital media are the enemy, I\u2019m Benedict Arnold.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new column published at the Intercollegiate Review site today, in which I meditate on the place (if any) of the library in today&#8217;s educational institutions. But mostly I play it for laughs. Here\u2019s where it would be easy to launch into a screed against this newfangled digital information age. Shelby Foote once &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11316\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;The View From What Used to Be the Library&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1314,1659],"class_list":["post-11316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-intercollegiate-review","tag-librarianship"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}