"The History of Scotland" by James Browne

[WClarkB]

Getting a book on loan from a library is like wearing a rented kilt.

I beg your pardon, sir. I am a librarian as well as a history instructor, and I am very proud of the services libraries provide to the public, so I find your comments somewhat disturbing to say the least.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

-- Andrew Carnegie (born in Dunfermline)

I can't tell you how many times I have been able to locate and use a resource that would otherwise by unaccessible thanks to a library.


Todd

Then Todd, you have looked for insult where none was meant nor expressed. It was meant and said in the way it was said and meant. The pride of ownership of a book to me is just as much a personal pleasure as I would find with the ownership of an article of clothing tailored to me. The book is NOT just the information within the covers no more than the kilt is a covering for my bum.

To blow this out of proportion as you have is neither justified nor constructive. I stand by my statement and cherish my ratty looking library card quite as much as any bibliophile.

Walter