Institutional Bullying
For a bookish person, I'm perhaps unusually averse to spending time in or making use of public libraries. It's partly because I find it very difficult to focus on books when I'm in a crowded room (a crowded moving vehicle is something else). But it's also partly because of what Ellen Moody, in her entry about the Library of Congress, calls "institutional bullying." One of the most shameful things about the United States is the unwillingness of so many of its citizens to understand that the staffs of public institutions ought to be among the most highly-compensated workers in the land.
