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[link to it] 27Dec04 : Google + libraries = I still don't know

I'd like to see this Google/library overlap really hit the popular culture consciousness. I'd like to see folks songs about the bookmobiles and people writing me letters at my library saying "I will still come there, even if all the books are available online" I'd like to see some good library art and some good library rallying songs and manifestos. I don't think we have to be anti-Google to do it, I think we just need to stick up for our own wonderful selves and explain why the idea of a publicly owned space for enhancing your own info-lexicon is a social good and one worthy of funding, support, and appreciation. Google will always be a wonderful tool for librarians and others to use, but Google will never belong to me. Google will never have a comfortable chair, and sometimes you just want a comfortable chair.

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