An idea to kick off 2018 – think of each librarian (this includes all relevant job titles) to be in essence, a living breathing library. The wide ranging expertise of each librarian engages and employs skills that include communications, marketing, research, technology innovations, teaching, training, knowledge discovery, building communities (including those of best practice), ensuring access to increasingly siloed information and resources that even a decade ago were freely accessible (but have since been warehoused, are otherwise off limits to direct use or even discarded). If considered in this light, the regular predictions of the demise of libraries (which have been spoken and written since at least 1990), take on a different hue. Moving forward, let us share the critical value of our profession and our services, and the critical value of books, on a regular basis, with all the communities, large and small, for whom we work, and whom we serve. Stepping off tiny soap box and on to: The Extinction of Libraries: Why the Predictions aren’t Coming True