There's a wonderful paean to libraries in this morning's daily Chronicle of Higher Education. "Thomas H. Benton"* describes his collection of books about libraries. (These are my very favorite books. I love browsing the Carnegie Public Library's collection of books with the LC classification "Z". The library at the Pitt library school has shelves and shelves of "Z" books.)
He talks about how he as a library lover feels about the relentless movement towards libaries without books.
Is there a word for someone who loves libraries? "Bibliophile" refers to a lover of books, but that isn't the same as the love we feel for libraries.
*The name is pseudononymous. Thomas Hart Benton was a great American artist whose painted scenes from the American midwest.
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