Writer Will Sherman compares the role of librarians to good web moderators: "the role of the moderator very much parallels the role of the librarian: to safeguard an environment in which knowledge can be accessed and ideas can be shared."
My favorite reason is Number 23: "The internet is a mess." I used to tell my students that the internet was like a library where someone threw all the books on the floor. (I couldn't remember where I stole that from so, of course I Googled it, and according to this site [Check section 8.12] lots of other people have stolen it too.)
Sherman talks a LOT about Google Book Search and doesn't even mention open access ("Number 3: The internet isn’t free" would have been an appropriate place.) Still for librarians and those of us who value them, it's worth a read.
For parents who know the book Officer Buckle and Gloria
by Peggy Rathman or the video performance, I can't get the idea out of my head of John Lithgow reading out the reasons in a sonorous voice ad infinitum. (In the story, Officer Buckle reads lists of safety rules....)(Credit to j's scratchpad for leading me to the article.)
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