web 2.0 where will the next generation of me'uncles web take me'Uncles libraries?

Reading the articles that little Kelly asked me to reinforces my concern for the library profession.
There seems to be this huge need to jump into every new technology trend, just so that we can say we have a digital presence, here I am thinking of facebook, twitter, myspace, secondlife etc...sure the digital face of libraries can not be discounted but what the fanfare of web 2.0 is forgetting that for many communities the actual physical place of a public library is probably still more important than the digital space it is occupying on Twitter, facebook etc.
The public library is one of the last public bastions that a person can enter freely without any discrimination, no is asked what religion, sexual preference, marital status, they are before they enter a public library and here in me'Uncle Island we don't ban our brown or red or yella cuzzies from entering our library. Our shopping malls have become privatised, so any drunks, homeless are shifted on quick smart thanks to Scrooge me'Uncle, but we let any drunk sleep it off in me'Uncle Library
My question would be for libraries to look at themselves and ask the question of what is their purpose? Hopefully it will be found in the mission statement ...something about serving our community. For the new emigrants, young families, old folks, students, children and the in betweens, the physical public library offers a welcoming place where they can socialise/meet, learn new things, use computers (as they don't have access to one at home) do homework in a conducive environment, things that they find are barrier free in a physical world as compared the digital world.
For this reason I believe that we can not discount the physical presence of public library just yet - at least in me'Uncle Island, if we were to become more like Singapore then yes I believe the digital presence of the library would be more important in many ways than the physical presence as a higher percentage of households have electronic access to a digital library.
straight up from Luza's mouth as always