![]() ![]() ![]() These fears have not been harmful in any radical way so far, because they may have increased the librarian's interest in the ways of bringing books to people and people to books by any means which successful business firms use (for example) to advertise what they have to sell. Indeed, so much is this a dominant fear that some librarians, to judge by their utterances, rest their hopes upon other recorded forms of knowledge‐transmission forms which are not necessarily inimical to books but which they think in the increasing hurry of contemporary life may supersede them. At times raven voices prophesy the doom of a profession glued to things so transitory as books are now imagined to be, by some. WE begin a new year, in which we wish good things for all who work in libraries and care for them, in circumstances which are not unpropitious.
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