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http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1007/s12109-015-9418-3&domain=pdf Web End = Pub Res Q (2015) 31:230231 DOI 10.1007/s12109-015-9418-3 BOOK REVIEW Mark Y. Herring: Are Libraries Obsolete? An Argument for Relevance in the Digital Age McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, NC, 2014, 258 pp, $25.00 (Paperback), ISBN: 9780786473564 Alexander R. Lent1 Published online: 11 July 2015 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 The question Mark Y. Herring, Dean of Library Services at Winthrop University, poses in the title of his book Are Libraries Obsolete?, is one, he writes, that many librarians are reluctant to admit that they think about (1). The Internet, the maker revolution, e-books, the circulation of non-traditional items like board games and musical instruments, and a generation of library school graduates who have been trained to expect a turbulent and ever-changing library world have combined to make this a golden age of libraries.