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“Seemingly every ten years libraries ask themselves: ‘what does the library of the future look like?'” says Daniel Flood, creative director of The Edge. “Intermittently, over the past thirty years it’s been the internet is going to kill libraries, Google is going to kill the libraries, eBooks are going to kill the libraries, and it never has actually happened.”

The Edge was born out of the last brainstorming session, designed to be a place “where people can come and engage in a free range of learning practices”, according to Flood.  Rather than dispensing books, it would be a space for working and learning from practical activities. “Our mission is to empower creative experimentation across art, science, technology and enterprise for the entirety of Queensland,” he says......Continue Reading

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