If your mental image of a library is still a stuffy, quiet room filled with dusty encyclopedias and a stern librarian telling you to shush, you are living in the past.
At the SXSWedu conference, innovators, tech leaders, and community organizers gathered to completely re-engineer the concept of public knowledge. From hosting neighborhood hackathons to transforming localized data into global, open-source archives, the modern library is quietly becoming the ultimate hub for 21st-century technological innovation.
The Knight Foundation breaks down five radical takeaways from the front lines of the conference—including why community projects must adopt a mobile-first philosophy to survive, and how ordinary citizens are using free digital tools to completely democratize history itself.
Discover how the institutions we take for granted are evolving to meet our rapidly shifting digital needs.
Click to read the five major insights reshaping technology, education, and community spaces forever.