Roland Barthes famously said: “The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author”. Similary, what could - and should - be said today: the birth of the emancipatory library of the future - for the future and from the future - must be at the cost of the death of the neoliberal library based on ownership, copyright and the subjects supposed to know (whether it’s librarians or authors themselves). No gods no masters!
