Death of the carrel?
Today’s Toronto Star had an interesting article on David Chang, a winner of the Ontario College of Art and Design Medal, Industrial Design for his creation, the Mobi, a mobile personal desk/shopping cart.
Mobi allows library users to collect the materials needed and set up a portable workspace in a preferred space, or nest Mobi up to other units to create a larger work surface for group activities. Mobi brings a new energy to the sometimes static space of libraries, with the hope of setting a precedent for the types of experiences to be had in libraries of the future.
More images of the Mobi in action are available on the designer’s website.
The only design flaw I can find with the Mobi is the limited space for graffiti.
Tim Berners-Lee announces World Wide Web Foundation
Tim Berners-Lee has announced he creation of the World Wide Web Foundation, which seeks,
- to advance One Web that is free and open,
- to expand the Web’s capability and robustness,
- and to extend the Web’s benefits to all people on the planet.
The Web Foundation is bringing together business leaders, technology innovators, academia, government, NGOs, and experts in many fields to tackle challenges that, like the Web, are global in scale. By funding research, technology development, and outreach, the Web Foundation strives to enable all people to share knowledge, access services, conduct commerce, participate in good governance, and communicate in creative ways.
There is also an interesting short article at the BBC on the role of the Foundation in certifying websites that it has found a reliable source of information.
Universal access to all knowledge
An interesting presentation by Brewster Kahle on the creation of an enormous digital library that will be free to everyone.
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