The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether

The best library is where the inmates--not the users but the librarians--have taken over the asylum. This plays to the strength of the individual rather than homogenizing the library operation into bland and corporate rules. Librarian-centered administration could create pitfalls of idiosyncratic extremism, obstructionism, and balkanization (as everyone does his own thing), so there must also be individual accountability.