Return to Education Libraries are going through a difficult period. Public libraries are short of funds and have difficulties in buying books for reference, education and general reading. And the library is kept short of money. University libraries have many of these problems. In addition they have the problem of storing back issues of the learned journals.
Help is on hand with the digital availability of literature.
Most of the non copyright books in the world can be available on about 20 slim CDs or DVDs. Students will be able to get relevant sections of text books or learned journal papers down loaded onto their own CDs for study at home. It is possible to get projectors that throw a large picture of the PC screen onto a white wall. You can change the pages at the press of a button. Every student can have a major library stored in a few feet of shelf space.