This text presents the changing role of libraries. It includes examples of modern libraries. It shows that libraries will have to change into flexible institutions adapted to the needs of users, which offer their readers more and more functions from traditional storage of book collections and their sharing, through providing access to e-collections, databases, to spaces where one can spend time in an interesting way. It shows the use of modern technologies in libraries.
Maczyszyn et al. (Wed,) studied this question.