Needed : MORE BROWSER FRIENDLY PUBLIC LIBRARIES

I spend a couple of hours this afternoon indulging my life long habit of BOOK BROWSING in a public library. At the Providence Public Library I noticed much of the space offering a splendid window view of downtown could be much more BOOK BROWSER FRIENDLY if library management positioned a half dozen desk and chair sets. They were there years ago. I recall collecting a dozen books that aroused my browsing intuition , placing them on a desk and happily browsing them for hours.Is there a trend in public libraries for slighting THE BOOK , foolishly thinking that ubiquitous library computers are making them all but obsolete ? For me printed BOOKS and periodicals and public computers supplement each other.