It may be called National Libraries Day, but it has its
own website, and runs all year round. With so-called austerity there have been moves to close libraries, but this website has a few ideas about both using them and developing them for the future. Wherever you live, from England to New Zealand, if you are on-line - and if you weren't, you wouldn't be reading this - you have not one but many libraries at your fingertips. The grandest of all Internet projects is the
Internet Archive which includes the much smaller but ever expanding
Project Gutenberg - 42,000 free ebooks to date.
Then there are news sites including the BBC and Google with their vast archives, university and government projects - everything from the
Domesday Book to
The September 11 Digital Archive.
Whatever your view of libraries - contemporary or future, real world or virtual - National Libraries Day is free for you to join and have your say.
