21.Jul.2010 NPR Gets on the ALA’s Jock
Linda Holmes is late to the party in examining “Why The Next Big Pop-Culture Wave After Cupcakes Might Be Libraries“; she means to be cheeky, I think, but proceeds from the perspective that libraries aren’t already (apologies to Will Ferrell) “so hot right now.” I’m not sure an institution can be a trend (since it’s not a consumer good to be purchased and discarded like so many Beanie Babies), but the current high usage of libraries has been well documented elsewhere.