28 May
2006
28 May
'06
2:53 p.m.
At 09:48 PM 5/27/2006, jim stephens wrote:
Most librarians are assassins. The sad fact is that in
most places,
where they are funded by the local government, they are only open
now because it would be politically embarrasing not to have them,
and only stock titles useful for the local schools to be able to train
students to use libraries.
And not only that, but in many small communities in the USA there
are movements afoot to merge the public library (as run by a city)
and the school district's library.
I mentioned this book here 15 months ago: Nicholson Baker's "Double Fold":
http://dir.salon.com/books/review/2001/04/27/baker/index.html
http://j-walk.com/nbaker/doublefold.htm
He talks about libraries, the destruction of original newspapers
and poor microfilming.
- John