Re “A Library to Last Forever†(Op-Ed, Oct. 9):
Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, writes, “Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice — fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.â€
Fly??? I’m pretty sure I can e-mail a reference librarian and ask her to check holdings before I do anything so drastic as fly. Hasn’t this guy ever heard of the Internet?
Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Danbury, Conn., Oct. 9, 2009
The Tin Man
I suppose if you were as rich as S. Brin, flying is all you could think of. Peons like the rest of us rely on things like Interlibrary Loan . . . .
Yes. I suspect that flying to a library on the other side of the country is to him equivalent to a trip to the local supermarket. Although, I would assume he would have servants to do all this for him anyway so he would never have to get off his well-cushioned bourgeois ass.