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QUOTE from KEN BRECHER, PRESIDENT OF LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES

From ALOUD Summer 2010 brochure.

Q: What is the future of libraries in such a technology driven world.

A: The internet and e-book are both additional resources for libraries, offering us another way to spread reading and knowledge. Reading is reading, whether it's done on a computer screen, a Kindle, on the pages of a coffee-stained paperback, or in the rare books room of the library. Books aren't going anywhere; the American appetite and curiosity for learning will ensure that we are adding new ways to access knowledge, not subtracting old ones."