At odds with the clouds

This blog was actually started for library school and so some library posts will be made (like this one). I read an article Wednesday in "The Cincinnati Enquirer" about the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (PLCH) loaning e-books. In many of my classes we have been discussing the effect of technology and the internet competing with books to fill people's information needs. People have been suggesting ways for libraries to "draw in customers" and I think this e-book endeavour is good. If print media fades into our distant memory (not that I think it will, but if) then libraries need to keep up with their patrons changing desires. I know that many of us love the tangibility of a book with paper pages, but maybe our grandchildren's children will be too busy, too mobile, too "technologically-advanced" to understand that. Maybe our society is moving towards an online all the time way of life. Hell, here I am typing away my thoughts so that I can publish them on the vast plain of obscurity that is the internet.