The idea is being championed by Donal Blaney, chief executive of the Thatcherite Conservative Way Forward group, who was inspired by a visit to the Ronald Reagan library in California.
Inspired by a pillar of antiquity, the Library of Alexandria, Brewster Kahle has a grand vision for the Internet Archive, the giant aggregator and digitizer of data, which he founded and leads.
In the middle of the building is a six-storey glass tower inspired by a similar structure in the Beinecke Library, containing the King's Library with 65,000 printed volumes along with other pamphlets, manuscripts and maps collected by King George III between 1763 and 1820.
A library of leaves from his Zurich show was inspired by a 1925 modernist exhibition; the structures are exactly based on Jean Prouve's desk designs, but Boyce removes the functionality aspect and highlights the art of the object.
Ever the bookworm, he just completed a jewelry box "inspired by a very large bound copy of 'Moby Dick' I have in my library".
The "Grape Library Lamp" (1900-1910), my favorite in the show, is inspired by a grapevine.
Hit Lit grew from a university course Hall began teaching years ago about about popular fiction, inspired by a collection of year-by-year lists of bestsellers he found in his university's library.
The commentary, about how children use libraries in a world increasingly dominated by the Internet, was clearly inspired by a piece written the previous month in The Wall Street Journal.
Users can build play lists from a library of 7.5 million songs and download them for offline use, or they can start a personalized radio station inspired by a single song or artist.
