Meet the future
Wed 7 Apr 2010, 4:22 pm
I haven’t read much of it yet, but Edith Patterson Meyer’s book, Meet the Future: Peoples and Ideas in the Libraries of Today and Tomorrow seems rather charming. Published in 1964 with lovely modern illustrations by Anton Schedl, the book takes a look at the role of libraries and librarians in society at the time and extrapolates a bit into the future. I’m not sure, but I think the book is aimed at high-schoolers or other young adults thinking of working in libraries.
Today, though, I’m mostly interested in the cover (this copy is from the collection of the University of Denver). The cover’s Schedl illustration from 1964…
Looks an awful lot like Tutt Library, where I work, here seen in a photograph from the Colorado College Archives. I can’t be sure, but I think this is from around the time the library opened in 1962.
The library of tomorrow, yesterday!
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I want a print of the second photo. That interior is stylin’.
Comment by Cecily — April 7, 2010 @ 4:53 pm