popularity controversy

From today's Sacramento Bee:

Sacramento library staffers are circulating a petition of no-confidence in management, decrying what they view as a departure from amassing a rich research collection to pandering to the whims of the YouTube generation.

Librarians question administrators' selection of materials, which include six copies of Paris Hilton's 'Confessions of an Heiress' autobiography and 10 copies of the film 'Jackass 2.'

Oh, the library has those kinds of things?! Wow... those must be some hip administrators selecting that kind of stuff... I'm gonna go check them - OH. They are all checked out. With holds on them. Well I guess that not everybody must think having popular materials is such a bad thing after all.

sigh

I guess I'll just check out Moby Dick. It looks like there are at least eight copies of that on the shelf at the Central Library alone...