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Introduction Finding Information or Funding a National Library? 1
1 BnF versus BNF 8
2 For Wells Is Not the Plural of Orwell 15
3 Geneva: World Capital 19
4 Quick, Quick 23
5 Volutes 27
6 A Digital Coronary 34
7 When the Book Is Too Highly Concentrated, the Purpose It Serves Is Easily Forgotten 37
8 The Pixel Coming to Paper's Aid 47
9 Is This Already the Post-Google Era? 50
10 But Why the Devil Do We Need Libraries? 54
11 Concordant and Discordant Clues 59
12 The Big picture 63
13 First Trials 72
14 Burning Stakes 76
15 Advent Eve 79
16 Muta Solitudo 83
17 An All-Horizons Inventory 87
18 The Future at the Portal 94
19 Tomorrow's Readers 101
20 Last Books! Last Books! Closing Time! 105
21 Paper Leaves by the Door and Comes Back through the Window 114
22 Library, Arise! 117
23 Striped Uniforms 121
24 Shrouds 123
25 Purse Strings and Police Cordons 127
26 Smocks 132
27 Against the Grain 141
Appendix 1 Libraries and Digitization 144
Appendix 2 Is the Library at a Turning Point? 151
Notes 162
Bibliography 172
Index 175
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