Yeah, I don't need it as much because I'm Computer Science. That's definitely true. The only reason people in the humanities need libraries, though, is because the teachers say they need libraries. Don't think for a minute, though, that 99% of the humanities students out there don't write their papers straight from Wikipedia. You're probably right about the theses for now, but the only reason we need books for "credible sources" is because that's the understood method for dispensing important information for now. You publish your work. There's no reason that work can't be published on the internet though.

Still, I agree. For now, someone writing a serious paper probably would need reference books.



Sure, but it's not the library's primary goal to supply you with interesting reading. It's there to educate you. I don't doubt that some people still want books, I just don't think that should be high on the school's list of priorities when making decisions about its library. If a library could educate students better with no books, it should get rid of them, in spite of the fact that some people (like yourself) will miss them.



Perhaps that would be a better option for now. It seems to me that you can't adequately replace library books with another solution for the time being, but they just seem such a waste. So very few people at the average school actually get any use out of them. It doesn't seem worth the millions of dollars it costs to purchase, store, and care for all those books.