Larry B

I know that I have too much stuff and I keep being given more than I need because that's what people do on birthdays, Christmas, third-grade craft projects, charity gifts for donations, etc. Each item provides a memory and an obligation.

I look at someone who throws out a gift as someone who shows the giver a lack of respect or love and I don't want to be that kind of a person, but I don't need an clay ashtray of a desert oasis - I don't smoke. Then the other son makes a refrigerator magnet that is cute and I do keep it.

Is Mr. Moose and Bunny Rabbit still alive now that the Captain and Mr. Green Jeans have passed?

Librarians - good ones - never claim an answer themselves. Ask one to spell "stupendous" and they'll tell you that the answer came from Webster's seventh collegiate dictionary, not from their own prior knowledge. Doctors - bad ones - don't even keep up with medicine by reading medical journals. Their answers are based on what they can remember from med school and "scatter medicine" which is if you request enough lab tests, eventually something will come up. This is pretty expensive to protect some old guy's ego from admitting that he's not all knowing.

I've known a couple of people diagnosed with cancer when they'd developed a bad gluten allergy. I also know of a child with learning problems who went to a psychologist and was told he had mental problems, an optometrist and was told he had eye problems, and a pediatrician that said he had ADHD. With all these egotistical, sometimes dangerous, mistakes, do you think a librarian, who's used to always finding impartial support for his decisions, would be helpful in medical diagnosis?

I've seen library after library go out and spend thousands of dollars because eBook readers are the next big technology. They have always flopped in the past and I bet they will in the future. This survey is a way to get librarian to save their money for real books ... and staff :-)

by not buying another ebook reader like a Kindle.

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6365200.ht... describes the issue involved. As it describes "Library 2.0 is user-centered change. It is a model for library service that encourages constant and purposeful change, inviting user participation in the creation of both the physical and the virtual services they want, supported by consistently evaluating services."