The commons

“Librarians know better, of course. Librarians realize that the free dissemination of knowledge is not only the highest calling of their profession, but a vital function in our democratic society. Because libraries “give away” information, they educate our children, help citizens make informed choices, and constantly reinvigorate our cultural heritage,” (Bollier).
Public libraries are important for democracy because without democracy we wouldn’t have a control on everything that is important to us today. If we don’t have access to the information that tells us how we are free or how we got here today, why do we have a government? It’s all apart of who we are and are standard ways of living. I think if we didn’t have libraries there would have been no start to all this wonderful information online. I mean our class is mainly based out of a library somewhere someone posted all this information to allow us to learn copyrights, differences, and voices. The function of public libraries relate to the internet by that’s where it all started. No one learned engineering or electronic information on their own, they read a book or learned from a teacher that received books from that library. To all end up one day having that book teach you how to build a computer, where leads us to the internet.

Siva described “anarchy in the library” as less and less every day. Our power to distribute our information or to read others material is more restricting everyday. Our copyright laws have made the anarchy in the library. People are stubborn as Vaidhyanathan says. He describes us as trying to always push the buttons to the max before actually understanding the limits. Its like when you were little you go to mom and ask a favor to do something, but she says no so you go to dad. He discusses hope for our world to open more availabilities up in an anarchy way instead of the oligarchy route. The oligarchy shows us a system that is controlled more and more by government. In a way his hope is for us to be less ok with the situation and take actions in hope for more of an anarchy controlled democracy.

-Kelsey Krueger