All of that may well be true, however it does not make the two approaches mutually exclusive. Demonstrating that digital is good does not make analogue bad. Attacks on libraries have been driven more by austerity cuts, that are forcing 20% of the staff at Library and Archives Canada to go, [i] and the situation is similar in other countries such as the UK, [ii] than by the diminishing popularity of the book in particular or libraries in general. Indeed, the book has never been more popular as the ranks of those who like digital formats have been swelled by the digital natives of the Internet age.  [i] CBC News, ‘Federal libraries, archives shutting down’, CBC, 2 May 2012,   [ii] Hall, James, ‘Scale of library cut-backs revealed’, The Telegraph, 16 March 2012,