On the ALA TechSource blog, Karen Schneider is grumpy, so she starts lining up her current library technology peeves:

• Open-source software
• iPods
• Penny-wise pound-foolish library-tech spending
• Retrograde anti-technology policies

The comments are focusing on the open-source complaints, but I am drawn to what she has to say about retrograde policies:

Ah yes, the good old days, when libraries had card catalogs, we all read books by gaslight, and women didn't have the vote. Who wouldn't want to go back to that era?

I'm afraid a lot of people would.

Want more curmudgeonly outbursts? Then check out Library Geek Woes, the blog by one of our own.