"Maybe librarians are simply the most optimistic people on the planet"

http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article03271201.aspx

Book Report
A dispatch from the 2012 Public Library Association conference.

By Jessa Crispin

"So this is it, maybe. The proof I need about libraries’ doom. The tumbleweed slowly cartwheeling through the empty spaces, the total absence of a line in front of the vendor selling stale giant pretzels, the men in headsets giving enthusiastic presentations in front of flashing flat-screen televisions to an audience of three, two of whom are texting."