The Future of our Libraries

After reading the recommended articles for this week my head is spinning. There are advances being made daily to allow patrons to access from their home computers info that was previously only available to librarians and therefore only accessible through them. It would be very sad indeed if the traditional library (bricks and mortar) as I've known and loved it for my whole life could be outdated or at any rate "downsized." However, I believe there are still plenty of us who want a good ole fashioned "hands on" book to curl up with. Reading a book on the computer monitor just doesn't do it for me, although I do have to admit that I've gone a bit over to the audio books camp... great for in the car, background for doing housework or while clicking along with my knitting projects.