Perplexities & Passages

“ The chancellor of the university has a privately funded study that he received from the Heritage Institute, on libraries, both public libraries and academic libraries, and it says that there are far too many physical volumes. That all of this can be replaced, except perhaps some rare volumes of historic value, perhaps, by a great cyber-library, one library for all, accessed from our home and office PCs. That would cut down on the need for almost all librarians, except for the cyber ones and it would make all this space available. … That would create additional savings by cutting the need for capital construction. This could be turned into classrooms, or dorm rooms, which actually earn money. ” - Beinhart, Larry. The Librarian. NY: Nation Books, (c) 2004, p. 5.