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Check out item #8.  :-)

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Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 20:32:36 -0400 (EDT)
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Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:46:43 -0400
From: Ginger Mauler <gmauler@xxxxxxx>
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ADDRESS:	60 Minutes 
		524 West 57th St. 
		New York, NY 10019 
		PHONE: (212) 975-3247 

Thought you might enjoy what Andy Rooney had to say on last night's 60
Minutes:

Library Rules To Shelve
May 12, 2002

A weekly commentary by CBS News Correspondent Andy Rooney:
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I use a computer, 20 twenty words on paper are worth a 1,000 on a computer so
I like books in libraries. Tonight, I have 10 observations to make about them.

1. The tradition of silence in a library ought to be abandoned. I've worked in
newsrooms with people yelling all over the place and no one has any problem
concentrating.

2. Silence can be more intrusive than sound because you strain to hear the
words of every whisper but you're oblivious to a yell or a shout.

3. Publishers should print books in just a few sizes - perhaps three. Look at
this mess of books.

There are too many blank pages at the beginning and end of most books and
authors should be discouraged from taking up a whole page to say something
like "To my wife Gretchen, without whose encouragement this book could not
have been written."

I mean, why should we waste our time while the author tries to get in good
with his wife?

If you took all the useless pages out of all the books in a library, they'd
save miles of shelf space.

4. I have written 12 books now. This is the last one "My War." Having people
take one of my books out of a library does nothing for me.

5. Publishers should print the title of a book on the back parallel to the
shelf, not perpendicular to it.

6. I would exclude books of fiction from a library. A library should be used
for information, not entertainment. Go to the movies!

7. While I oppose capital punishment, anyone caught cutting a page out of a
book in a library should be put to death.

8. I would do away with dust jackets. Dust jackets are a pain in the neck and
do not prevent books from getting dusty.

9. Oliver Wendell Holmes said. "Every library should try to be complete on
something, if it were only the history of pinheads."

This is my little office library here, about 350 books. Forty seven of them
are books on English grammar and usage. This is the head of my pin.

10. It is a sexist thought that I know that some of you will object to, but
mechanics, prize fighters and garbagemen should be men. The best librarian I
know is a man but I like mothers, nurses and librarians to be women.

That's what I think about books and libraries.

© MMII, CBS Worldwide Inc. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/10/60minutes/rooney/main508673.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml
Ginger Mauler
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