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The pound new Library of Birmingham (LoB) will be the most visible sign of the way the city is accepting
the digitalization (数字化) of everyday life.
Set to open in 2013, the ￡188m LoB is already beginning to take shape next to the Birmingham Repertory
Theatre, with which it will share some equipment.
As digital media (媒介) is important to its idea. The project is already providing chances for some of the
many small new local companies working at the new technologies.
Brian Gambles, the LoB project director, says it is about giving people the right tools for learning, "The aim
is to mix the physical with the digital. Providing 24-hour services which can be used through, many different
ways. It is important to enable us to reach more people, more effectively."
The digital library will, he says, be as important as the physical one, allowing the distant use of the services,
making sure that it is never closed to the public.
Even before the LoB is complete, the public has been able to go online to visit the Virtual (虚拟的) LoB,
designed by Baden, the Birmingham virtual worlds specialists. Not only have the public been able to learn about
LoB, but the virtual one has also enabled those working on the LoB to understand the building and how it will
work before it even opens.
Two other small Birmingham-based digital companies are working on the LoB projects. Substrat, a digital
design company, is developing what it calls an example of an "enlarged reality" project. It is about the use of
an exciting smart phone, an important part of which are the early stages of development is an online library of
figures of the city being built up by a content company in Cahoots, in which users with the encouraged to add
to and comment on the material.
Gambles says:"Technology will enable us to make the libraries and services open to citizens as ever before."
1. The underline part"its idea" in Paragraph 3 refers to the idea of _____.
A. the equipment
B. the project
C. the digital media
D. the physical library
2. While visiting the Virtual LoB, the public can _____.
A. get a general idea of the LoB
B. meet more world-famous experts
C. learn how to put up a library building
D. understand how the specialists work on the project
3. Which of the following is true of the LoB when it opens?
a. It offers better learning tools
b. It reaches users in different ways
c. It provides users with smart phone
d. It allows users to enrich its material
e. It gives non-stop physical and digital services
A. a, b, d
B. a, c, e
C. b, c, d
D. b, d, e
4. This ext more from _____.
A. a put book
B. a library guide
C. a handbook
D. newspaper report
