{"id":41966,"date":"2014-01-08T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_texas_library_offers_glimpse_of_bookless_future\/"},"modified":"2014-01-08T16:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T16:00:51","slug":"ap_texas_library_offers_glimpse_of_bookless_future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41966","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Texas library offers glimpse of bookless future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas has seen the future of the public library, and it looks a lot like an Apple Store: Rows of glossy iMacs beckon. iPads mounted on a tangerine-colored bar invite readers. And hundreds of other tablets stand ready for checkout to anyone with a borrowing card.<\/p>\n<p>Even the librarians imitate Apple\u2019s dress code, wearing matching shirts and that standard-bearer of geek-chic, the hoodie. But this $2.3 million library might be most notable for what it does not have \u201d\u201c any actual books.<\/p>\n<p>That makes Bexar County\u2019s BibiloTech the nation\u2019s only bookless public library, a distinction that has attracted scores of digital bookworms, plus emissaries from as far away as Hong Kong who want to learn about the idea and possibly take it home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2014\/01\/07\/3194562\/texas-library-offers-glimpse-of.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas has seen the future of the public library, and it looks a lot like an Apple Store: Rows of glossy iMacs beckon. iPads mounted on a tangerine-colored bar invite readers. And hundreds of other tablets stand ready for checkout<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41966\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,433,175,94,92,615,111,168,151,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-social-networking","category-anthropology","category-blogging-the-internet","category-books","category-city-government","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}