It's all about the bling here. Move on up into the 21st century! Make your library the happenin' place for your community. Sure, it's challenging, but you're up to the challenge. So come on -- pimp your library!

Sunday, March 02, 2008
  Borrowed Time?
My brother the architect found this photo essay on Slate about the future of public libraries: http://www.slate.com/id/2184927/slideshow/2184934/fs/0//entry/2184936/
 
In the photo essay, they refer to Ross Dawson's Extinction Timeline, which says that libraries will be extinct by 2019.
 
But given how the libraries featured in this photo essay have changed and morphed to meet the needs of an increasingly wired public, I think we might be around for a little longer than 10 years from now. We just have to be willing to change our mission and our viewpoint to encompass the new ways people want to use us, as well as the old ways.
 
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"PIMP" Verb
1.) to pimp something out is to *make* it look ghettofab and blingbling
2.) to pimp is to advertise (generally, in an enthusiastic sense) or to call attention in order to bring acclaim to something; to promote.
- Urban Dictionary