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Taking the concept of the public library as a benchmark against which to measure what society and culture should be like and an indication that an economy of contribution is possible. Where there is a will there is a way. Mars\u2019s project has taken this broad consensus as the basis for Public Library, an on-line book sharing project which promulgates the utopian hacker ethic of the universal space of free ex-change of all knowledge by seeking to fuse a number of existing internet based projects for either managing or exchanging electronic publications (such as Calibre) along with his own plug ins to create a peer 2 peer culture for the exchange of books. Public Library makes the case for the institution of public library and its principle of universal access to knowledge. It is an exploration and development of distributed internet infrastructure for amateur librarians.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memoryoftheworld.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/27\/public-library-an-essay\/\">https:\/\/www.memoryoftheworld.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/27\/public-library-an-essay\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, October 13, 4pm<br \/>\nPublic Space Lab, 6 East 16th Street, room 1132<br \/>\nGuest talk by Marcell Mars on Public Library<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The artist\/hacker Marcell Mars argues that the concept of public library is right up there with public education, public health care and the scientific method as a both a great achievement and social good to which almost everybody subscribes to as a non-negotiable public good. 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