Providing connection

Julie Andrews - yes, this Julie Andrews - is putting in a word for adequately funding libraries. And good for her. I just wish she'd left out the bit knocking the internet:

Perhaps most important, libraries offer a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Internet, providing connection, support and community. Rather than wading in a solitary fashion through the morass of potential misinformation available on the Net...

Hey! I'm now connected by the internet to people in L.A., as I didn't used to be. And there's no 'rather than' about it; it's the internet as well as libraries. You know, just like being able to have Truffaut or Buñuel and The Sound of Music. And there's straight information there too, oodles of it.