Tomorrow's Lunchbox/Soapbox - Shane Maloney: In Praise of Shoosh

Libraries are places where books talk to each other. But are their seductive whisperings in danger of being drowned out by the roar of phone-using, iPod wearing, internet surfing hordes?

This is an issue that has been debated openly in the Age and on the State Library of Victoria's website. Tomorrow Shane Maloney will reflect on the role of libraries in his experience as a reader and a writer, and speculate on their fate in the face of a culture with little regard for the values they embody.