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But by the end of the 5th century CE, the great library had vanished.
The idea for the library came from Alexander the Great.
He died before construction began, but his successor, Ptolemy I, executed Alexander’s plans for a museum and library.
The library grew as they contributed their own manuscripts, but the rulers of Alexandria still wanted a copy of every book in the world.
As the library grew, it became possible to find information on more subjects than ever before, but also much more difficult to find information on any specific subject.
For about 300 years after its founding in 283 BCE, the library thrived.
For years, scholars believed the library burned as the blaze spread into the city.
It's possible the fire destroyed part of the sprawling collection, but we know from ancient writings that scholars continued to visit the library for centuries after the siege.
Ultimately, the library slowly disappeared as the city changed from Greek, to Roman, Christian, and eventually Muslim hands.
And even if our reservoirs of knowledge are physically secure, they will still have to resist the more insidious forces that tore the library apart: fear of knowledge, and the arrogant belief that the past is obsolete.
But it doesn't have much to do with what a library actually does today.
That same year, in 2004, on the other side of the country, another library was completed, and it looks like this.
This library is about how we consume media in a digital age.
They would be bombarded by examples of experimentation, of innovation, of pushing at the envelope of what a library can be.
That's ammunition that they can take with them to the mayor of Livingston, to the people of Livingston, and say, there's no one answer to what a library is today.
Another example from my hometown in Philadelphia: I recently went to the public library there, and they are facing an existential crisis.
So what does their education experience look like in the wake of a completely cloud-based library, what used to be considered such a basic part of education?
That's the 130-foot diameter library.
If a young woman on one of our college campuses was raped on her walk to the library, we would never celebrate the solution of moving the library closer to the dorm.
She was in the intensive care ward for weeks at a time, and Bina and I would tag team to stay at the hospital while the other watched the rest of the kids, and when I was in the hospital and she was sleeping, I went to the hospital library.
I work in the field, in the policy world and in the library.
There's a new library across the river.
It's right off the library.
I started developing digital book technologies, such as a digital Braille editor, digital Braille dictionary and a digital Braille library network.
For the enjoyment of its passengers, the ship was to feature a flower-lined promenade, a sheltered swimming pool, and bathhouse with heated water, a library filled with books and statues, a temple to the goddess Aphrodite, and a gymnasium.
Maybe next summer, you'll just stick to the library.
Shrink all that down so that it fits in the palm of your hand, and you'd have something equivalent to a modern hard drive, an object that can likely hold more information than your local library.
Rather than a body map, the cephalopod brain has a behavior library.
There, they set fire to a medieval library of 30,000 manuscripts written in Arabic and several African languages and ranging in subject from astronomy to geography, history to medicine, including one book which records perhaps the first treatment for male erectile dysfunction.
Last year, a student in my class, a freshman, with a background in Latin and Greek, was image-processing a palimpsest that we had photographed at a famous library in Rome.
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