Law in the Internet Society

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>		I'm not sure I got across my point very well, hopefully I can edit down the beginning and make things more clear. I think the library provides two services, the content lending and the education (learning how to find and use information is certainly a better description than the nebulous 'educational value' I have in mind). The second service is the one that is (at least in my mind) more socially useful. The danger I see is that those who actually pay for libraries (by voting or otherwise approving of tax dollars for them), NPR-liberals for lack of a better term, tend to focus on the content providing. So when the internet makes the content provided by the library superfluous, the library as an institution will slip from the thoughts of those people, eliminating both services just because one is no longer as useful.

I don't think any sinister anti-library/pro-establishment force is relevant, it may be a baseline independent of internet. I think the threat is most dangerous is large cities like New York, where there is a mix of rich and poor. Smaller towns are likely to have less of a problem both because the library is more likely to also be a community landmark/gathering place/etc., but also because of local funding (the poor don't have libraries and the rich will keep them, whether for the reasons you've suggested or simple economics).

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