In a discussion of the importance of public libraries in countering the effects of the commercialisation and technical lock-down of intellectual property, Siva Vaidhyanathan's 2004 book The Anarchist in the Library (which I keep misreading as the Antichrist in the Library - probably the same difference for some folk) states that, at that time anyway, "there are more libraries than McDonald's restaurants [sic] in the United States" (p.123) - best news I've come across for quite some time.
Further down the same page he says "Libraries are leaks in the information economy. As a state funded institution that enables efficient distribution of texts and information to people who can't afford to get it commercially, the library pokes holes in the commercial information system." lovely stuff!
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