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Hell, yes, there should be interesting innovations made in the culture of university libraries. The monks to whom we owe western civilization (and libraries, no doubt) invented our present day high- caffeine drinks/religious libations in order to make it through long nights in the scriptorium and pew. What substantive difference is there, really, in having a nice little coffee bar in our modern biblioteque, devoid as it is of unfashionable obeisance to the deity of your choice? We can at least get a jolt of java to go with our secular humanism...

: -- Jonathan Eells, Grad Student AKA Fodder @ UCLA (posted 11/10, 1:45 p.m., U.S. Eastern time)

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