Rather than thinking of the library as an institution with a definable organizational structure, a mission, and a set of rules that help to fulfill it — in other words, as a local tradition into which a new and different tradition is being introduced — it seems more productive to view the library, together with its history, as a confluence of complex interlocking networks of books, religious wars, world views, political agendas, and influential individuals, and as being essentially porous and unbounded.
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