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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

No Browsing!

Is it a person's right to check out materials from a library or is it enough that the library is open and you can come in and look at things? The Michigan Supreme Court says it's good enough to just look...

This reminds me of a story Laura told me about the Latvian library system...here is how it works there...you go to the card catalog and find your source, then you go to a main desk and tell a person what book you want and they get it for you...the main book shelves are not open to the public and there is no browsing...five decades of communist rule can mess things up...