As spotted by swankyfunk

[newredshoes]

Harriet Hayes and George Luz on TV in the same show? Damn, I may have to watch this.

Really interesting discussion of the practice in the UK of paying authors royalties of books taken out of libraries. I haven't read the comments since yesterday, but I'm surprised that no one has brought up the old privacy bugbear as another reason it wouldn't fly

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[siadea]

They haven't because there is a big huge difference between knowing what books are taken out and knowing who takes the books out. <3 Librarians know what books are taken out and how often; it's where we get our circulation statistics from!

[siadea]

(Also, yes, the ALA is awesome on a stick like that. :D)

[newredshoes]

(If only they'd been awesome enough to hire me. Twice. *g*)

[siadea]

(Well yeah.)

[newredshoes]

Aha! And there we go -- that would make sense. All I had in mind was nefarious Patriot Act stuff that I'm pretty sure I'm not remembering correctly anyway.

[siadea]

Well, if you think it's nefarious, then you're probably remembering correctly as far as I'm concerned!