Re: how absurd

That's just it.  They're >>not<< trying to protect you from yourself,
they're trying to protect themselves from being sued out of existence
by some doofus with no brains, a sharp lawyer, and an idiot jury!

Libraries that are closed do even less to inform you that libraries
that are covering themselves...

>I can see why the library might want to do the CYA thing.<
>
> It seems to me that libraries would be in the business of informing
us, not
> in trying to protect us from ourselves.
>
> Mike K.