From an email to someone dear to me who's having advisor torments: "I want you to know that I do feel some structural responsibility to act against the prevalent abusive model of doctoral training. Librarians are major enablers of university research--without what we buy/subscribe to, the whole project would fall apart as researchers would have...
...difficulty searching the literature and also would have few places to publish their results. The system is evil, and it doesn't have to be and shouldn't be." God, how I wish OW were here for this one.
- Mark Kille