In the digital area, in order to receive a certificate of copyright for a website, for instance, one must submit screen printouts of the site. It is easy to not bother looking at this report. After all, it is about a library, and we're from museums. And, even if we are from a library, we are not from The Library, which has a different set of circumstances than we might. Or, if one does choose to look at the report, it is easy to think of it as being about something quite different from one's self.
Libraries are by nature huge, highly structured, highly specialized and formalized institutions.
Museums by comparison have a rustic, amateurish quality. On some level it is comforting to find that the LC is not perfect. But, I want to suggest that in very profound ways, this report, its findings, its implications, and perhaps what grows out of it is important for us to pay attention to. First off, museums have no reason to feel smug. LC comes to be the library of last resort for those of us who are consumers of library science and its related fields rather than producers of it as a university library might be.