The World is NOT 6000 yrs old. It's actually 18 yrs old....

[rgbecker]

5. So my son, who got his masters of library science, loves books....

and that's why he chose to be a librarian. Had little luck in finding a job at a local library so he took a job with Ebsco Publishing. Ebsco is the new "Reader's guide to Periodical Literature", that is, a data base of indexing and short reviews of all the magazines in the world now on line, available to libraries everywhere on subscription. They recently merged with Wilson publishing which was their only competition and are growing rapidly. Although different than expected, he enjoys his work, organizing all the current information and helping to make it findable for anyone looking. Each magazine article is quickly read and than indexed by hundreds of readers, scanned and then the magazines, he tells me, are stored in the basement for a year or so in case they need to be referenced for some reason. Fortunately, most magazine publishers make a digitalized version available to them so they don't have to handle all of them in paper.

Thought you might find this interesting behind the scenes look into just who is keeping track of it all.