When the Library of Alexandria was burned and completely destroyed, the unique content of its encoded explicit knowledge was lost for humanity. Today, two millennium later, the Library of Alexandria Supercourse (http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/)

is transforming the public perception of a library as a “physical place where cuneiforms and books encoding explicit knowledge” are organized by subject and location to the concept of library as a “virtual space to relearn, evolve, and adapt” organized to identify the relevance of specific knowledge for a specific conversation, connecting people through co-creative relationships. Manifesting the commitment of the Library of Alexandria to deliver “All knowledge, for all people at all time”

The industrial age has created a need for mass training where the teacher delivered content. Now, in this information age, the technology is creating an opportunity to expand the role of the library with the teacher as a catalyst to expand student mind ethically balancing the fulfillment of individual and community needs.

With access to the knowledge provided by centers such as the Library of Alexandria, a new landscape is created for “association” between concepts and between people. With the association process two or more people through dialogue are bringing to consciousness some new connections that may create a new concept. We are also speaking of the individual who independently (though perhaps not to the same potential) can “associate” in a creative way two uncorrelated nuggets of knowledge extracted from the world pool of knowledge.

In summary, the library now is bringing educators closer to the students, and closer to the experts. The ubiquity of digitized knowledge assets means that the educator can leverage these assets so that he/she now can efficiently exercise his/her roles in the researching and absorbing component, and spend more time on improving the doing, interacting and reflection components of understanding, incorporating the ethic required in the application of knowledge.