From The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog:
The vice president for information services at Rhodes College, in Tennessee, wrote an article bemoaning the decision by some institutions to de-emphasize printed books in favor of electronic texts. “As huge university libraries push aside their books, they are sending a terrible message to their students,” Robert Johnson wrote. [...]

Kurt Vonnegut quoted in today's USA Today:
“The America I loved,” he writes, “still exists in the front desks of public libraries.”
…need I elaborate?

I love the image of 'Librarian' in pop-culture. I was scandalized when I caught (notice 'caught', not 'watched') Cher's televised breakout concert a few years back. They had a camera man in front of her as she walked down a corridor toward the stage. Someone asked if she was nervous. She [...]