Radio Report: “Moscow’s Libraries are Experiencing an Unexpected Revival”
From All Things Considered/National Public Radio:
One of the Soviet Union’s lasting legacies in Moscow was a dense network of hundreds of public libraries. After Russia’s rocky transition from communism and the rise of the Internet, the city’s libraries looked like they were doomed to become relics of an analog past. But as NPR’s Lucian Kim reports, Moscow’s libraries are experiencing an unexpected revival.
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Filed under: Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Reports
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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