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The Silencer

Dennis G. Jerz / 12 Apr 2006

“Wouldn’t shooting cell-phone users in research libraries be counterproductive?” you might well ask. “Wouldn’t that actually make the library more noisy?”

A fair point. Yes, it would. But not for long…. —Scott McLemee —The Silencer (Inside Higher Ed)

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