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John Palfrey, Biblio Tech
John Palfrey’s is loyal to libraries: a former librarian himself (most notably at the Harvard Law School), he does not see them as potential profit centers or dismiss their books and shelves as obsolescent tchotchkes in an age of information technology. That said, he is not optimistic about the future of libraries as repositories of books…