Can Dumbing Down Save Our Libraries?

The Sunday Herald has an Interesting Story that says libraries are facing a stark choice: modernise or die.


The author say we just can\’t win, if we put in a bank of computers we are accused of dumbing things down, if we demand silence in the reading rooms and purchase books that aren\’t \”popular\” we find ourselves charged with elitism.

They focus on England, but I think many of these issues are international.