Virtual libraries, interactive digital museum objects, scholarly databases accessed by mobile phone, blogs, Wikipedia, and more. We are in the midst of an epochal shift from print-bound places to digital environments, logics, and cultures in and through libr@ries. For six millennia, libraries have functioned as repositories of social memory and cultural capital, comprising key sites for language and literacy work. In a mutually-beneficial synergy, literati and librarian produced, preserved, and distributed valorized texts and knowledges, thereby playing key roles in the interconnected political economies of society and schooling. But access to information resources and services is now independent of time, place, face-to-face social interaction, and the micropolitics of institutional mediation. Bit by bit and brick by brick, online technologies and new media are literally and figuratively disassembling the institutional spaces, powers, practices, and privileges of libraries. Thie presentation explores a range of issues around the libr@ry as emblematic of rapid change taking place in public access to information, education, literacy, and intellectual property.