{"id":1130,"date":"2007-12-04T18:02:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T18:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2007-12-04T18:02:42","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T18:02:42","slug":"the_tomb_of_the_book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/04\/the_tomb_of_the_book\/","title":{"rendered":"the tomb of the book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BibliotecaVasconcelos.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/BibliotecaVasconcelos.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"449\" \/><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/eneas\/175027945\/\">&#8220;Vista de la Biblioteca Vasconcelos&#8221;<\/a> by Eneas, on Flickr<\/small><br \/>\nA <a href=\"http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/future-warehouse-of-unwanted-books.html\">lovely meditation<\/a> at BLDG Blog on the architecture of storage facilities for unwanted books. Speaks volumes (as it were) to the anxiety of obsolescence that keeps librarians up at night -?\u009d the thought of libraries themselves becoming tombs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8230;a relatively random piece of 100-year old legislation &#8211; dealing with copyright law, of all things &#8211; has begun to exhibit <\/i>architectural effects<i>.<br \/>\nThese architectural effects include the production of huge warehouses in the damp commuter belts of outer London. These aren&#8217;t libraries, of course; they&#8217;re stockpiles. Text bunkers.<br \/>\n&#8230;Perhaps it will take some future moment of cultural archaeology to break into these places, spelunking back into the literate past, to find well-tempered rooms still humming at 50\u00baF, humidity-free, where the past is refrigerated and Shakespeare&#8217;s name can still be recognized on the spines of books.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Vista de la Biblioteca Vasconcelos&#8221; by Eneas, on Flickr A lovely meditation at BLDG Blog on the architecture of storage facilities for unwanted books. Speaks volumes (as it were) to the anxiety of obsolescence that keeps librarians up at night -?\u009d the thought of libraries themselves becoming tombs. &#8230;a relatively random piece of 100-year old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,1062],"tags":[2617],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-library","tag-library-architecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}