Your enemy of the week is...Suzanne E. Thorin.

[sensaes]

'“Let’s face it: the library, as a place, is dead,” said Suzanne E. Thorin, dean of libraries at Syracuse University. “Kaput. Finito. And we need to move on to a new concept of what the academic library is.”'

Someone fetch the smelling salts! Breathe, child, breathe!

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[sensaes]

Is this userpic still f*cked?

[sensaes]

Yes. *Sigh.* LiveJournal. What a bunch of inept tossers.

[dativesingular]

This is news to her?

I get to research for a living. How is this a bad thing? :D

eta: seriously. It never fails to amuse me that I've made a career out of having good study skills and being interested in too much crap.

[sensaes]

Oh, it's just that whole "transition/realization" thing kicking in for her:

"Omigod! Print is dying! Everything's digital! No more books! It's the 1950s and I'm about to be replaced by a robot! Short-term contracts for librarians! Tear down the library walls and put up a self-service booth! Dogs and cats...living together."

She'll settle down when she figures out that early retirement and forced redundancy are good things. In the end.