Our ambition is to redefine / reinvent the Library as an institution no longer exclusively dedicated to the book, but as an information store, where all media – new and old – are presented under a regime of new equalities. In an age where information can be accessed anywhere, it is the simultaneity of all media and the professionalism of their presentation and interaction, that will make the Library new.
Technology is not a threat, but it enables the realization of ancient ambitions – totality, completeness, dissemination, accessibility. In any case, the anticipation of a looming conflict between the real and the virtual is moot at the moment where the two can be made to coincide, become each other’s mirror image. The virtual can become the distributed presence of the new Seattle Public Library that users find confirmed in its actual site in the city.
Seattle Public Library Proposal – December 1999
Este artículo nos muestra como las intenciones de la biblioteca son el redefinir y reinventar nos habla de la forma en la que la biblioteca mezcla la información escrita con la digital y les da una igualdad tal vez de alguna manera mostrándose a favor de la nueva era digital. La tecnología no es una amenaza sino una posibilidad más para deseos de expansión anteriores y de evolución.