Pre Modern Libraries

With all the new technologies now becoming a daily part of the modern library, I wonder whether the Magic is still there? Sure the internet provides a great deal of information and misinformation (as do books, databases, and refereed publications) BUT is the internet as exciting as first discovering a rare work thought to be lost? By Plato, Virgil, Caesar, Aristotle,
the apostles......Imagine the monks first discovery of new parchment books in ancient libraries. The site below conveys some of the background of ancient libraries.
http://www.libraries.gr/nonmembers/en/history_mesopotamia_soumer.htm

In a world saturated with technology based information systems, the WOW factor is not
there to the same extent.