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I get search results from Waypath for the term 'librarian' and I always get interesting weblog entries that, for some reason, I don't get from Feedster from the same keyword search.
Anyway, this post on the porn/Patriot Act issue was interesting enough to mention here. A few quotes:
"Okay librarians, let's get this straight. You stack books in a building for a living. Are we clear? You run books under that beeping thing and give them to those of us who are too cheap to buy them in stores. You are not arbiters of free speech, the Constitution or our freaking civil rights. I know you probably have a little chip on your sunken shoulders because you feel you are too smart to be schlepping a wheeled cart of Barbara Kingsolver novels to section "818.23-920.34 Feminist Socialist Writers" but that aint my problem..."
"So just relax book-stackers. The sky isn't falling. "They" are not coming for the children, the elderly or anyone else. Like most of us, you are not on some front line of the battle for liberty or any other such high-falutin' crap. So stick to what you know: the Dewey Decimal System, socialist novels and your uncanny ability to put newspapers in those wooden racks."
The entire post is worth a read. For those that bruise easily, be forewarned. For those that take these posts in stride and chuckle at most the comments, enjoy!!
Posted by Steven at October 30, 2003 02:59 PM | TrackBack