Will public libraries become extinct?

As someone who has spent a fair amount of time analyzing business disruption, I think it's pretty clear that libraries are eventually going to fade away. I understand that this isn't a popular view, because libraries (and librarians) are awesome. read more

Libraries are and have been on the front lines of technology forever, but people persist in thinking of them as old-fashioned. This has been true since the early 1900s, by the way. Henry Dana Gibson, one of the early heads of the American Library Assoc. wrote about it to the association. read more

Public libraries in the U.S. will not become extinct any time soon. The reasons are: Despite the availability of e-journals, e-books and online periodicals, many people still prefer print materials. read more