Concert-goers can also expect the next couple of years to be particularly dynamic, because the guest conductor list is always impressive during a conductor search. Charles Dickens, Somebody's Luggage. The format in which information is provided has been changing at a hair-tearing clip. Some in the media anticipate a speedy demise of the book. Students need to be reminded that just because it's on the Internet doesn't mean it's right.
Books are portable, and available to the reader at any time.
The power goes off, the book can be read. The book is a tangible object you can see, feel, smell. Its content does not change arbitrarily. Like scrolls of the past and webpages of today, books are objects in which knowledge can be recorded and accessed. A format that has not outlived its usefulness, at least in the opinion of this librarian.