Friends of Montclair Library

Great column in today’s Chronicle (8/15/10) by Carl Nolte on the subject of books and libraries:

Print is not dead – libraries booming
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/15/MN1R1ETNGD.DTL

A boom in the city’s public library system has been going mostly unnoticed over the past year. While the media were announcing the death of print with the rise of e-books and other electronic wonders, the demand for books and other items in San Francisco’s public library was up 13 percent.