[WillPostForFood]

I agree, but there is something lost in being able to walk the shelves. Serendipitous discoveries, but more importantly, when doing research, just looking at books in a section leads to interesting discoveries of related materials that you don't get when doing searches online.

[distances]

True enough, and I'm not particularly worried of that going away anytime soon. At some point maybe, but most of the libraries are still filled with shelves and will be for at least some time.

Maybe that changes in the future, which just means that the world has changed. Institutions need to adapt to the needs of each generation.