Barbara Bader's "Cleveland and Pittsburgh Create a Profession" looks at a time when place really mattered and where you worked was far more allied to what you did than it is today. Certainly, you would learn from your distant colleagues via professional associations and journals, but change in librarianship happened building by building. Reading Bader's account I'm struck by the concreteness of everything--Effie Power moving from Cleveland to Pittsburgh; Frances Olcott's "Library Day" programs on summer playgrounds; William Howard Brett literally carving out space to make a children's room. All of this still goes on, of course, but what will the ebook future hold? You can now go to library school from your home and check out books the same way. With public libraries currently so tied to geographically dependent funding, how will they fare as their physical location matters less and less?