Tim Spalding wrote:
>
> This is completely out of touch with both the world as it exists and
> with the inherent value of others' minds. Librarians can be very
> helpful. They are not the only or necessarily the best guide to what's
> interesting, useful or germane to someone's interests. They are not
> Plato's Guardians.
>
No one went that far, nor was the question who's the best guide.
Melvil Dewey wrote:
"The time was when a library was very much like a museum, and a
librarian was a mouser in musty books... The time is when a library is a
school, and the librarian is in the highest sense a teacher."
And what time is now?
B.Eversberg
Received on Mon Feb 23 2009 - 06:08:08 EST