Interesting article! Appreciate it as always. My take is that the library has a valuable function within our society, offering a quiet space among books, which many if not most people find quieting, and free internet for people without the disposable income to be paying $6 for a latte. For small children and their parents, the value is obvious.
But it is a shame and detrimental to the purpose of libraries that the ALA has been taken over by radical leftists who seek to use any institution they control to implement top-down social change. Even this might be OK if they weren't currently pushing smut on kids. Where I see the compromise on this issue is, due to pushback from people like yourself (thank you!), the masked commies will continue to use their control of “library science” to push political propaganda, but they will bail on the smut because what they have been trying to do there is indefensible.
As someone who contributes their education to a local South Georgia Carnegie library I have a love for that library and visit it whenever I’m in Georgia. I think what I saw reflects the reality of the world we live in today.
Upon my last visit I saw the books had been relocated to the back of the building and the main floor was decks with desktop computers that were free to use. The 30 plus computers were in use and I saw one person with a book in hand. My thought that times have changed was reinforced.
The internet has changed everything. I rarely go into a library anymore and my recent trip to the Meridian library left me feeling like it was a daycare facility. I left thinking I was glad I don’t pay property tax in Meridian that paid for this new facility.
Being a lover of sci-fi I notice the future has no libraries, just library banks on their computer devices.
Interesting article! Appreciate it as always. My take is that the library has a valuable function within our society, offering a quiet space among books, which many if not most people find quieting, and free internet for people without the disposable income to be paying $6 for a latte. For small children and their parents, the value is obvious.
But it is a shame and detrimental to the purpose of libraries that the ALA has been taken over by radical leftists who seek to use any institution they control to implement top-down social change. Even this might be OK if they weren't currently pushing smut on kids. Where I see the compromise on this issue is, due to pushback from people like yourself (thank you!), the masked commies will continue to use their control of “library science” to push political propaganda, but they will bail on the smut because what they have been trying to do there is indefensible.
As someone who contributes their education to a local South Georgia Carnegie library I have a love for that library and visit it whenever I’m in Georgia. I think what I saw reflects the reality of the world we live in today.
Upon my last visit I saw the books had been relocated to the back of the building and the main floor was decks with desktop computers that were free to use. The 30 plus computers were in use and I saw one person with a book in hand. My thought that times have changed was reinforced.
The internet has changed everything. I rarely go into a library anymore and my recent trip to the Meridian library left me feeling like it was a daycare facility. I left thinking I was glad I don’t pay property tax in Meridian that paid for this new facility.
Being a lover of sci-fi I notice the future has no libraries, just library banks on their computer devices.