Library of the future: Wi-Fi, flat screens, automated book sorting. (Chicago Tribune, 3/7/2011)
Excerpt: The shiny, LED-lit future of libraries opened Monday in Bolingbrook, promising to be a technology blueprint for others as iPads, Kindles and Nooks replace dusty old paperbacks.
Crowds of curious and eager patrons visited the three-story, $39.5 million building featuring flat-screen TVs, computer terminals, self-checkout stations, an automated book sorter and a cafe.
The Fountaindale Public Library, with its state-of-the-art, Wi-Fi equipped space, is starkly different from the previous antiquated library, a nearby one-story brick structure built in 1975 that awaits the wrecking ball.
Officials are hopeful the new facility attracts a demographic libraries haven't seen in a number of years — young professionals.
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