Jessamyn points at Ursula K le Guin's On Despising Genres, over at librarian.net.

The science fiction section [of Multnomah County Library] includes fantasies and horror novels, neither of which belong there; the attitude apparently is "this is irresponsibly imaginative so it's sf."

I linked this only because my uncle, Thomas Olson, works at the Multnomah County Library in Portland, OR. I am pretty sure he is not responsible for the Science Fiction section, but will check the next time we talk. Do not hold your breath; we seem to touch base every five years unless some major family event takes place.
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"He took a PC connected to a high-speed data connection and imbedded it in a concrete wall next to NIIT's headquarters in the south end of New Delhi. The wall separates the company's grounds from a garbage-strewn empty lot used by the poor as a public bathroom. Mitra simply left the computer on, connected to the Internet, and allowed any passerby to play with it. He monitored activity on the PC using a remote computer and a video camera mounted in a nearby tree.

What he discovered was that the most avid users of the machine were ghetto kids aged 6 to 12, most of whom have only the most rudimentary education and little knowledge of English. Yet within days, the kids had taught themselves to draw on the computer and to browse the Net. Some of the other things they learned, Mitra says, astonished him." This is fascinating stuff. It is not just that it says a lot about what cognitive science has done for good user interface design, it is that children are a whole lot smarter (and persistent) than we tend to give them credit for.
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