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[leemur]

The perfect library is one without patrons.

There is a common misconception that libraries exist for the purpose of servicing people.

This is false.

If you work in customer service, you do your job by serving people. If you work in a library, you do your job despite people

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[ianh_au]

[greyreviews]

You could say it, but you would be about as correct as saying the sky is dark green.

Lee's conjecture is that a library is a storage space or a hoarding of information.

Whereas the two options you give are specifically designed to give things out. The first one is so obvious it is even in the name; Internet PROVIDER, not Internet Storer. Secondly schools dont exist to hoard knowledge they exist to disseminate that knowledge.

[finback]

Iunno, I could see the internet as being a temple of knowledge, constantly desecrated by the masses.. I mean, MySpace.

I rest my case!

[anonymous]

This entire post is giving me de ja vu...

And you are wrong, customer service id basically the same as a library, in the way we just store the stuff.