What's the future of the library?

The Washington Post points out a lot of the problems that ebooks are presenting to libraries, with long lineups and lots of titles being completely unavailable.

Want to take out the new John Grisham? Get in line. As of Friday morning, 288 people were ahead of you in the Fairfax County Public Library system, waiting for one of 43 copies. You’d be the 268th person waiting for “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” with 47 copies. And the Steve Jobs biography? Forget it. The publisher, Simon & Schuster, doesn’t make any of its digital titles available to libraries.

Given how ebooks are typically licensed rather than sold and restricted by DRM, I'm not sure how much hope I hold out over the long term given the current trend towards copyright extensions.