[Web4lib] NY Times review of “This Book Is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All”

[B.G. Sloan]

The NY Times recently reviewed Marilyn Johnson's “This Book Is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All”:
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/books/review/Kennedy-t.html
 
It's largely a favorable review, but there is one interesting passage: 
 
"Johnson cheerleads for these Brave New Librarians, championing the efficiency of online searches and digitized archives. And yet, without meaning to, her book comes off as a paean to a previous age, when fact-finding meant trekking through the Dewey Decimal System. Johnson writes best when she’s meandering and browsing, in the manner of a woozy reader exploring the stacks. In her most absorbing passages, I felt as if I were back in the children’s library, scrutinizing a volume of the World Book Encyclopedia."
 
Bernie Sloan