The Badger Herald seems to publish anything these days. Take "Read between the lines" by Joey Labuz in which he inveighs against a proposal to build a new Central Library here in Madison. In the first paragraph he writes:
After months of debate, a proposal to build a new central library has been approved. Near as I can tell from the wrong end of I-90, it doesn’t seem like anyone is going loco for libraries, bonkers for books or even deranged for the Dewey decimal system.
Oh, Joey my child of clay.
This bit of alliterative madness comes a full week after Kristin Czubkowski noted recent trends in library usage. To wit:
...according to a 2006 annual report from the Madison Public Library, library checkouts increased 41.7 percent between 2001 and 2006 and library visits increased 18.7 percent (this information is on page 6). Also during that time, Web page views increased by more than 200 percent and Internet access by 360 percent. Between 2003 and 2008, library statistics were a little more flat, with circulation growing by 21 percent and visits by about 7 percent, but they still showed significant growth in library use.
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