The Library at 11p.m. on the first day of classes

There is no point in me being here. I am normally a pretty strong advocate for keeping the reference desk open whenever the library is open but this is just ridiculous. My stance on this has nothing, whatsoever, to do with the extremely smelly patron that I just helped.
so I just read an article "Marketing library Services to the Net generation" Library Management vol. 27 (2006). This article makes some damn good points about the changing nature of libraries and what the new generation of user is looking for. Not too surprisingly they want information and they want it now. The article does a great job at pointing out that this generation's want for quick information is no different than a study done in 1968 that showed (shocker) students wanted information quickly and were willing to sacrifice quality to get it. So to all those grouchy-pants cardigan wearing librarians who think "this generation is just different" I say, "screw you."