To Serve and Protect?

If we accept as true the latest pablum from the ALA, “Librarians stand up for your right to read,” we must also admit that many librarians are lying down on the job. As the massacre of the printed word continues in college libraries across the country, we must ask what sort of “reading” are these former book custodians protecting?

Your right to read the latest 140 character drivel from the Orange Occupant of the Oval Office on your radio telephone is already protected without “librarian” intervention. Your right to review the latest baby goat videos and images of your friend's restaurant meal choices does not depend on a diligent depository denizen declaring defense. Your right to be totally misinformed by a lack of ability to read beyond the length of a bumper sticker does not hinge on a biblioposer’s policing.

In a way Information Scientists ARE defending your right to consume electronic nibbles so easily digested since they are eliminating the alternative at an astonishing rate.