http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304354104575568592236241242.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_news
The library of tomorrow leaves no option for those who don't own a computer.
If that's the case or your elderly and don't use a computer, your just shit out of luck.
This is so wrong on so many levels that it's obvious NO ONE thought this idea fully through.
HUGO, Minn.—In this suburb of St. Paul, the new library branch has no librarians, no card catalog and no comfortable chairs in which to curl up and read.
This is so wrong on so many levels that it's obvious NO ONE thought this idea fully through.
.Instead, the Library Express is a stack of metal lockers outside city hall. When patrons want a book or DVD, they order it online and pick it up from a digitally locked, glove-compartment- sized cubby a few days later. It's a library as conceived by the Amazon.com generation.
Faced with layoffs and budget cuts, or simply looking for ways to expand their reach, libraries around the country are replacing traditional, full-service institutions with devices and approaches that may be redefining what it means to have a library
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Camden Closing Library System
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/new_jersey/camden-closing-library-system-20100806-apx
This is just plain wrong and needs to be addressed.
Do you think Bill Gates or Warren Buffet might consider this to be a worthy charity to give to? Or does their idea of giving to charity only have to do with 3rd world countries?
- New Jersey's most impoverished city will close all three branches of its public library at year's end unless a rescue can be pulled off,
Camden's library board says the libraries won't be able to afford to stay open past Dec. 31 because of budget cuts from the city government. The city had its subsidy from the state cut.
The library board president says the library system, which opened in 1904, is preparing to donate, sell or destroy its collections, including 187,000 books.
Board president Martin McKernan says keeping the books around would pose a fire hazard.
Camden's library system is not the only one having financial problems. Fourteen libraries in Queens cut weekend services earlier this year.
This is just plain wrong and needs to be addressed.
Do you think Bill Gates or Warren Buffet might consider this to be a worthy charity to give to? Or does their idea of giving to charity only have to do with 3rd world countries?
- New Jersey's most impoverished city will close all three branches of its public library at year's end unless a rescue can be pulled off,
Camden's library board says the libraries won't be able to afford to stay open past Dec. 31 because of budget cuts from the city government. The city had its subsidy from the state cut.
The library board president says the library system, which opened in 1904, is preparing to donate, sell or destroy its collections, including 187,000 books.
Board president Martin McKernan says keeping the books around would pose a fire hazard.
Camden's library system is not the only one having financial problems. Fourteen libraries in Queens cut weekend services earlier this year.
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