But you know what? Forget it. If you want snark from me, see my comments in that FriendFeed post or the comment I left on Meredith’s post. If you want thoughtful, pointed commentary on the Taiga thing, see John Dupuis’ post or Dorothea Salo’s Allaying fear. I don’t want to waste any more time on Taiga.

Instead, I’d like to thank John Blyberg, Kathryn Greenhill, and Cindi Trainor for The Darien Statements on the Library and Librarians. These statements are a clear mountain stream in contrast to the dank little catbox of the Taiga statements.

And let’s talk about provocative. Taiga wants to provoke us to discuss whether the library will be completely culturally irrelevant in five years and whether faculty and administrators hate us more than we hate ourselves. Darien wants us to discuss just what it means to say “the purpose of the Library is to preserve the integrity of civilization.”

I know which discussion I’d rather have. Thank you John, Kathryn, and Cindi.