Alice in InfoLand

Sloan, the co-creator of EPIC, a must-see for all informed citizenry, appreciates libraries (and librarians):

“One of the really magical things about libraries, after all, is that they are all about service. They don’t want anything from you; they don’t want to sell you anything. Today, that is almost a radical proposition. Like serious journalism, librarianship is worth preserving and extending in the era of Google’s cold genius; in both cases there is something valuable at the core. “