Viz (no. 136, June/July 2004) has put Libraries at number 50 in its poll of every single person on the electoral roll
of reasons to be proud to be British:
Once dull, dusty, silent places full of boring books, libraries are now vibrant, lively hangouts. Since the advent of the internet, there has been no need for books, which are less accurate and weigh more. So your local library now serves expensive coffee and cakes with Italian names you can enjoy while trawling the net for amateur porn and cheap holidays, leaving the kids to run round the brightly-coloured PlaySafeZone where the encyclopaedias used to be.
I think CILIP still has work to do. Incidentally, number 1 was Aldi Bags in Trees.