Combine the two and you’ve got yourself a trip to the Friends of Maitland Library book sale this Saturday.

Every year, the Friends host fund-raisers. This is their biggest and, in past years, they’ve pulled more than $4000 from this event alone.

The books they sell have been culled from the library collection and sell from just $1 apiece. People can fill a bag for $10.

The money goes back to the library to buy equipment as required.

It may surprise some to learn that eReaders will likely appear on this library wish-list.

An eReader is a mobile, electronic device designed primarily for reading digital eBooks and periodicals.

Why would a library offer those, you might wonder?

Well, the library of 2014 is nothing like the library of yesteryear.

A quick browse of Maitland City Library’s website shows that it offers many state-of-the-art eResources including eBooks, eFilm, eMagazines, eMusic and so forth.

People can download all manner of content on their own devices. And, if they download inside Maitland, East Maitland, Rutherford or Thornton libraries, they can have free WiFi access as well.

Society and technology evolve, but libraries continue to attract students, offer sanctuary for word-lovers, transform into hives of school holiday activity and ­stoically keep watch over history.

Yellowed pages and dusty spines share their space with the newest, ­shiniest of technologies.

Regardless of the era, or the ­medium, the common denominators remain ­people and knowledge.

And libraries continue to be the place to bring the two together.