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work_dzpx2hl4kvdblaufhkagfpeu3i	Caro Pinto	Creative Destruction in Libraries: Designing our Future	2013		.htm	text/html	3463	225	55	In Brief: Joseph Schumpeter defines creative destruction as a "process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one." As libraries struggle with how to position themselves to thrive in the digital age, how can we balance the traditional elements of librarianship like collecting and reference with the demands of the present, all without sacrificing staffing and support for collections, space, and community? Through the course of my reading, I came across these words from Saarinen: "Each age must create its own architecture out of its own technology and one which is expressive of its own Zeitgeist-the spirit of the time." (Serraino, 2009) Within our own libraries and within the field of librarianship at large, creative destruction is the idea that in order to create new ways of knowing and thinking, we must break with the past to plan and shape our future.	./cache/work_dzpx2hl4kvdblaufhkagfpeu3i.htm	./txt/work_dzpx2hl4kvdblaufhkagfpeu3i.txt