The SurRural Librarian

I love this from Clay Shirky’s reply to Michael Gorman’s silly Web 2.0 lambasting:

“Academic libraries, which in earlier days provided a service, have outsourced themselves as bouncers to publishers like Reed-Elsevier; their principal job, in the digital realm, is to prevent interested readers from gaining access to scholarly material.”

I guess the principal job of the school librarian is to prevent interested party-goers from dancing to recorded music. (See this month’s School Library Journal copyright column. I’d link to it but their site is down!)

(update: here’s the link to the SLJ copyright column. Always a mind-blowing read.)