Kalev's guest post for the Knight Blog titled "Reimagining Libraries as Conveners of Information and Innovation" explores his collaborations over the past year with the Internet Archive to make use of its 19 petabytes of holdings to fundamentally rethink how we explore and understand the world through data and what that can tell us about the possible future of libraries in this changing data-driven world. The post ends with this thought piece:
Perhaps the future of libraries lies in a return to their roots, not as museums of physical artifacts for rental, but as conveners of information and those who can understand and translate that information to the needs of an innovative world.