Here's to the Librarians...

While I enjoy the cosmopolitan, the City as the saying goes, there's also a reality of how tough a scholar or academic needs to be when attempting to bring the catalog to the more provincial areas of the American West. I enjoy reading a good theory set down by an Ivy League-er, but also wonder if they could hack a serious week of provincial fieldwork? Why would they want to? Who knows, who knows. As well, it takes more effort to be someone who reads books in a sea of philistines who regard reading as a "waste of time" than it does in a City where variety and literature is the norm.