Libraries and Internet

Listening to CBC's Cross-Country Checkup at the moment. Subject today is the value and future of public libraries and archives, particular in the "digital age". Guest host is Peter Mansbridge, and you might want to listen to it either live or via podcast.

Some concerns of note and substance are being raised in the discussion today.

Open Note re: Hong Kong

What's happening there is not going unnoticed.

Personal opinion: I strongly recommend that the people in charge in Beijing not overreact as the government of the day did in 1989. There's not much I can do to stop such a choice from being acted upon, but I can still make my disapproval of such an overreaction known.

If it happens.

If it doesn't, mainland China might gain much as a consequence.