Wired Campus Blog asks,

Are e-books and Google Print threatening libraries or energizing them?

As information specialists, librarians are going to be needed more and more for helping us with research and obtaining hard to find texts. As for the library collections, I doubt that e-books and/or Google Print are even close to as much of a threat to libraries as Elsevier and other academic journal publishers who are putting the screws to library budgets and and thus their collections. In fact, Google Print should help to expand access to texts while such publishers work so hard to limit access.