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Social Role

The Library has been transformed from a space to read into a social center with multiple responsibilities.

Each library today houses a proliferation of adjunct conditions that creates a conceptual imbalance:
since its format has never been fundamentally
adjusted to accommodate its new social role,
the Library is like a host organism
overwhelmed by its parasites
        Seattle Public Library Proposal - December 1999