“I worry that here in the 21st century people misunderstand what libraries are and the purpose of them. If you perceive a library as a 
shelf of books, it may seem antiquated or outdated in a world in which most, but not all, books in print exist digitally. But that is to miss the point fundamentally.
I think it has to do with nature of information. Information has value, and the right information has enormous value. For all of human history, we have lived in a time of information scarcity, and having the needed information was always important, and always worth something.” – Neil Gaiman
Read more in the The Guardian’s “Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming”
Lehman's Library Lab 