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Originally Posted by allinhi/
In my city we have a community college and city library sharing a location and funding, the first new library location in 20 years. In general I would say that the computers get more use than the books. My cable was interrupted (critters chewed the cable) and I took my laptop to the library to do some work. The dozen or more workstations were constantly busy.
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This is what my libraries look like as well. For every one person browsing the stacks there's ten on the computers.
I'd expect we're going to see some sort of hybrid computer center/library/community location in the future. The books will get warehoused somewhere, and if you need one, interlibrary loan will get it for you. The thousand (or so) most popular books will be on hand for browsing and lending. The rest of the space will be for computers and gatherings.