The Beloved Institution

Posted on December 14, 2013 by Fenster

Fenster writes:

Nice to know in this day and age of eroding trust in institutions that one institution continues to be held in high esteem.  It is:

library approval

 

the public library.

Granted the Atlantic article that this chart comes from concedes it is not super-scientific.  But it is probably on to something.

This is what happens when you let 12 year olds take out Bound.

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Gainfully employed for thirty years, including as one of those high paid college administrators faculty complain about. Earned Ph.D. late in life and converted to the faculty side. Those damn administrators are ruining everything.
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  1. agnostic's avatar agnostic says:
    December 14, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    Millennial idioms:

    “Tellingly, the Times could find no one to argue against libraries, and that mirrors American sentiment pretty much exactly.”

    Google hits for the entire phrase “pretty much exactly” — 13,600,000

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  2. agnostic's avatar agnostic says:
    December 14, 2013 at 2:44 pm

    “Public libraries: actually kind of amazing (survey)”

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