This morning’s New York Times has a front page, above the fold, article on the growing use of e-books in public libraries. The slant is on this part of the library community, which doesn’t get much attention from us, since we are more focused on scholarly publication in the Sci-Tech-Med arena. And a lot of the hoopla about new e-book readers and networking technology used on them has concentrated on individual users and their buying habits. So, we may have missed the developments in this other segment of the library world. The Times piece is a good catch-up. There is of course some concern among publishers who don’t like the idea of people borrowing at no cost books they would otherwise pay for. But, that was the original objection to the whole idea of public libraries in the first place.