Council Considers Replacing Tacoma Libraries with Mail-order Model

A Tacmoa, WA councilman wants to eliminate libraries, or rather, make one, all-serving library, which means the result would be the same; no libraries. To him, libraries are relics. Dinosaurs. Totally irrelevant. \"To Councilman Phelps, the growth of the Internet and the home computer means libraries needn\'t be places, but systems. Fewer libraries could manage data and deliver books via the mail. Poor people who want to visit could be given bus passes. He envisions just one library - a fancy new model downtown that might even attract tourists.\" Read More.