Well, folks, for those of you who have heard me speak, or read my essays about the future of the library… the bad news is, my date of 2020 for these unfortunate changes to take place has just been moved up to 2011… as in right now.

A combination of the recession, the economy, budget cuts, and the new way that people are getting their ‘reading material’ is turning the library into a dinosaur. I suggested what a ‘new’ library might look like, but this article will describe it almost as well. Give it a read, and as they say in poker, read em and weep… the library as we all knew and loved it, is going, going, gone…

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42339223/ns/today-books/from/toolbar