I swear, all I thought their site would say is, "Americans, Everything Wants to Kill You." And then tell you all the shots you need to survive stepping even one foot outside of our borders.
But no, they have lots to tell us that doesn't involve Infectious Diseases, Pandemic Influenza, Foot & Mouth Disease, or Chemical/Biological/Nuclear Incidents, and one of the things is that books are okay.
There's an article this week about Nancy Pearl (the model for the library action figure with super-shushing powers),
"Information access is vitally important, but it is only part of what a library does," Pearl said.Everyone says how libraries need to go to the the people, to push content and feed their programming, and to open their websites to public comments, but there's always another opinion that says to not forget the basics.
“More programs, book discussions, poetry readings, political discussions -- all those can bring people into the library,” Pearl said.
We see people using MySpace and Facebook in the library every day, this proves that people want social interaction. They want to talk to people and they want to share with people. They might not want those things from librarians, but that's a chance we'll have to take.
