Ouch

Alan showed me a posting on Joystiq, a video game blog he follows. The poster was "amused" by a new Dewey Decimal (oops, no, make that Library of Congress, his bad) classification/shelving game developed at Carnegie Mellon University. Yes, the game is lame, to say the least (though not knowing the reason for its being and the whole back story, I am in no position to criticize). What hurts is the blast o' scorn coming from blogger Justin McElroy, who describes libraries as "the crappy, flammable Internet that also has homeless people." Then there are the tags ("libraries," "sadness"). Don't get me started on the comments.

Well, it's a good reality check for me. All the LibraryLove I get every day probably skews my perspective. But maybe some of us should give Justin a ring (oops, old-school reference) and offer to show him a different side of the stereotype?