Re:As a 21 year old... (Score 1)

As a 24-year old librarian, I have to say that while flawed, the Dewey Decimal System is not "total bullshit", when you understand it's use and reasoning. Systems like Dewey organize information according to subject, so as to group similar information together to facilitate browsing and retrieval. Unlike Google, which just spits out information based on a comparatively simple system of keywords and 'popularity' rankings, Dewey organizes information into groups, based on the idea that a book about Mercury the planet would fit better near a book about Jupiter the planet, rather than near mercury the element. It was set up for a world with out electronic means of information retrieval, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have functions currently. As for Google Books with a drive-thru, have you talked to a librarian lately? Libraries have always done phone reference, correspondence reference, and more recently, email and instant message reference. They track down information from books, periodicals, and yes, the internet, and will usually leave you a nice stack of pertinent information on a hold shelf. Just because you don't use the facilities and services to even a percentage of their availability doesn't mean that it's not a viable and important asset. And yes, you'd have to leave your house, and probably get out of your car...but really, is that so damn hard?