Dave Lankes is like the Bill Nye of librarianship - possibly a little kooky for the field, but pro at ra-ra-ing and making everyone want to be, of all things, a librarian. (And for those of you who grew up on Bill Nye the Science Guy -- don't worry! According to Wikipedia, he's still alive...unlike...Mr. Rogers...)
Another similarity is their view of the audience: Bill Nye included everyone in his science-y thing, encouraging little kids, adults, reluctant babysitters to EXPERIMENT with SCIENCE and other all-caps crazy shenanigans. Dave, I think, (can I call him Dave? oops) wants to do the same for us and the patron/user/member/owner, except his keywords are: INNOVATION and LIBRARIES.
And it's awesome.
ps - Is anyone else curious about Dave's argument for the use of "member"? Consider the following (har har): one of my friends scoffed and said she preferred "user" because -> "Well, you say 'drug user', and...books are like drugs, right?" That's right, kids.
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