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I had this weekend pleasure to speak to The Express. Com in the context of an interview given to Elodie Bousquet:
opportunity to revisit my recent essay "From the library bibliosphère to: the impact of digital books to libraries and their evolution " published NumérikLivres (Collection Understanding Digital Book ) and explain precisely what I heard this concept from bibliosphère.
"Where are we with the French in libraries today?
LS: Libraries are experimenting ... but more often separately, without comprehensive plan coordinated. Some of the lending test bed jackets. I think this is especially relevant for librarians familiarize themselves with the new reading devices.
[...] And Abroad ?
The first two libraries without books opened their doors last summer in the United States. It's a new way of designing the mission of libraries beyond their vocation heritage. One may wonder whether it is appropriate to go into a library to be at home, in front of his laptop. Yet, just go to those places to find [...]
Apart from these libraries without books, what can be considered as other changes?
The next decade will be very rich. The iPad will give us an overview of digital books increased the 21st century. The Internet of Things Augmented Reality with 3D, and artificial intelligence will converge and will be so many doors of communication between what is called the real and virtual, tangible and intangible. [...]
Is it somehow "the bibliosphère?
Yes, indeed. In my book what I call "bibliosphère" is the single library that weaves a web around the entire planet. This may remind Borges or Neal Stephenson, but Google Books.
With this convergence, on the one hand, the dematerialization of content and implementation networking of libraries, and secondly, equipment for people with new reading devices connected, we are moving towards an extension of the library field "hard".
I think they will evolve into what we might call "libraries-hub" at three levels: one physical, which we are accustomed, the second digital-only without a server of digitized texts - which would interface with the third level, that of the virtual library, as we begin to test in the metaverse.
For now we think of Second Life and we smiles. But one day Google Earth could somehow duplicate the physical world. With the Internet of Things and the development of augmented reality solutions, the porosity will be increasingly important between what we call, too easily, reality and virtuality. "