I am so angry and depressed. There seems to be no end to the Black Dot Queen's unthinking casual vandalism. Neither GaG nor GoG seems to have ever understood the difference between a library and a reading room. A reading room is a room full (hopefully) of reading material. A library is a room full of reading material organized for quick information retreival. The internet is a sea of information. An internet library is an organized sea of information. The key is organization and organization with a purpose, quick retreival of information. Check out a bookstore. Book stores are organized to sell books, not to supply information quickly. Traditionally the organizers of information for quick retreival have been called librarians. Providing the tools of organization to libraries has been called library technical services. DotLand has been fulfilling that role in the Duchy for many years. First the Duchy was small and organization was provided by a few librarians working more or less alone. As the Duchy grew, it became clear that some organizational tools could be provided more quickly, easily, and cheaply by a small group working centrally, hence DotLand was created. The economics of the situation are well understood and practiced by Walmart, Target, and every grocery chain in the United States.
The Black Dot Queen tells us that the issue is local control of library money. Let's see, the people of the Duchy always did have control of how the library money was spent, as long as it served the libraries. Does the Black Queen mean that library money can now be spent on football uniforms and trips to Cardiff-by-the-sea? We have been assured that this is not so, but then we were also told that only one person from DotLand would be sacrificed to the RightSizing Gods. Instead both Pink and Navy have gone to appease the endless hunger of GaG and GoG.
Open letter to the Black Dot Queen:
Dear Madame,
You are an idiot.
Very Sincerely,
An Angry Dot