The Popular Library
A coupla months in the laboratory can save a coupla hours in the library.
Westheimer’s Discovery (via infoneernet)
If anything, [libraries may be] less necessary for certain things, but that has only freed up libraries to perform other important functions in today’s society.

Kristin Czubkowsk’s article for Madison’s Capital Times.

She summarizes the library’s new role as a place for specialized (as opposed to basic) research, a source for pleasure reading, and a center of community activity.