April 11, 2003
Alarm Bell in the Library
On a damp March morning that bears the promise of sun, a lone bicyclist sails by the red-brick library, heading from the Quad toward the stadium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Inside the library, the faint smell of old paper pervades. It's an unlikely setting for a homeland-security crisis.
But the whisper quiet in the nation's reference rooms, here and elsewhere, conceals an undercurrent of anger. As champions of public access to knowledge, librarians are upset
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