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I don't really understand the premise of this thread.
ebooks can be gotten over the internet, without need for librarians.
That is true, no matter what service provides the ebooks.
Librarians are, in that sense, already as obsolete as they are going to get.
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Paper books aren't going away any time soon.
Certainly not in the libraries.
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Libraries have increasingly started moving towards being community/cultural centers, and providing public internet among other things.
Librarians serve knowledge, not books -- books are just a convenient form of knowledge that has been in use for a long time. They recognize that, and are trying hard to make sure they stay relevant. (In an age when movies and video games have displaced books as the most popular form of entertainment, when newspapers and magazines have moved online to blogs and everything across the board is transitioning away from paper, this requires a fundamental re-evaluation of what a library is.)
And on the whole, they have been doing a good job, I think.
To reduce the issue down to "OverDrive provides all the ebooks, therefore they control the future of our libraries" is, IMHO, incredibly insulting to libraries everywhere, and demeans the actual challenges they are facing.
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