Horton recommended that central government should bear more of the burden, but in return, libraries should become real community hubs, with a range of responsibilities, recreational, informational and advisory. … If this sounds eerily familiar, it is because Horton had identified, back in 1976, exactly the crisis of purpose that we associate with the digital age.

Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile Hist…, loc. 910