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The use young people make of libraries—both school and public—has been investigated in a range of research projects over the past 25 years, yet very little attention has been given to understanding of the term ‘library’ itself among this group. The study addressed in this paper aimed to explore whether—against a background of great change in the nature of libraries and, in particular, the shift towards virtual, rather than physical, collections—children's attitudes to the word now reflect the modern characteristics of libraries. In May 2006, data were collected via questionnaire from 45 children 8–10 years old attending a Canadian elementary school. One question asked the pupils what they thought of when they heard the word ‘library’. Although seven individual strands of meaning were apparent in the participants’ ideas when they were analysed as a totality, the youngsters were seen overwhelmingly to associate libraries with books. Libraries were also frequently understood to take the form of physical premises. The fact that these children have yet to embrace today's concept of libraries as providers of information regardless of its form suggests that educators still have much work to do in widening young people's understanding in this area.
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