"The days of libraries saying, 'We must have that, because it's good for people,' are beyond us."

At this point, I visit the library in/near my hometown (Owings Mills, Md, the library's actually in Pikesville which is right down the road), and it's maybe 25% oldsters reading and scanning the shelves and getting online to do research and send emails; 5% tots riffling through the kids section or tagging along with thier parents; 10% 20/30 somethings doing the same thing; and 60% teens getting online to check out whatever porn they can get away with and myspace and play videogames, LOUDLY.