  Photo by Libraryman/Flickr (Great slide, Michael!) I found
this article in my Google Reader this morning and, I will admit,
it has been awhile since I have been so excited and
flabbergasted at the same time. I was excited about the
possibilities and flabbergasted at the implementation. Take a
moment to click on the link and go read it so that you too can
join me in such a mixture of emotions. Or, for those who want to
get to the meat of the situation, carry on.  Page told
conference delegates that "all the major trade publishers have
agreed to work with aggregators to make it possible for
libraries to offer e-book lending"…   …with the addition of
certain "controls".  Uh oh.  He said the guidelines had been
developed because of concerns over free e-book lending offered
by some libraries to lenders "wherever you are" in breach of
publisher contracts.  Ok, here it comes.  Under the new scheme,
library users would have to come onto the library’s physical
premises to download an e-book at a computer terminal on