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Mar. 25th, 2010 03:57 pmApparently, this is my week for reading comments on things that I should know better than to read.
My personal favorite of this batch is the comment that declares that our libraries are mismanaged and useless and that people who want books should just go out and buy them. Because that's certainly going to cost less than the proposed property tax hike. I also like the people who assume that everyone has a computer in their home, the people who say we should all just get our books at thrift shops (workable if all you want is Stephen King and romance novels, I suppose), and the person who thinks that library employees have exorbitant saleries [sic] and health benefits (I don't even have health insurance). The bitter, petty part of me would like to point out that that last commenter can't spell and that one of the others doesn't know the difference between "could of" and "could have". Perhaps they could use a trip to their library to do some actual learning.
(I'm also terribly amused by the commenter who thinks that the Bainbridge library should secede. Amused, but not at all surprised. Oh, Bainbridge.)
Guys, libraries are important. (I know that I don't have to explain that to you, lovely flist/dwircle, but it needs stating.) And if you seriously want to say that fixing the roof of a library building or installing air conditioning in a building that had to be closed for a week this past summer because of intolerable heat are needless luxuries, then I all I can say is "Wow."
I'm gonna go bang my head against a desk for a while, okay?
ETA - And, half an hour later, we have an patron complaining bitterly that our computers are too slow. Sir, the computers are too slow because many people in this county feel that the library having computers at all - indeed, the library having a functioning building, let alone computers - is a needless luxury and thus we have no money to pay for better ones. Maybe you could talk to your friends about this problem, rather than crabbing at me about something that I have no power to fix.
My personal favorite of this batch is the comment that declares that our libraries are mismanaged and useless and that people who want books should just go out and buy them. Because that's certainly going to cost less than the proposed property tax hike. I also like the people who assume that everyone has a computer in their home, the people who say we should all just get our books at thrift shops (workable if all you want is Stephen King and romance novels, I suppose), and the person who thinks that library employees have exorbitant saleries [sic] and health benefits (I don't even have health insurance). The bitter, petty part of me would like to point out that that last commenter can't spell and that one of the others doesn't know the difference between "could of" and "could have". Perhaps they could use a trip to their library to do some actual learning.
(I'm also terribly amused by the commenter who thinks that the Bainbridge library should secede. Amused, but not at all surprised. Oh, Bainbridge.)
Guys, libraries are important. (I know that I don't have to explain that to you, lovely flist/dwircle, but it needs stating.) And if you seriously want to say that fixing the roof of a library building or installing air conditioning in a building that had to be closed for a week this past summer because of intolerable heat are needless luxuries, then I all I can say is "Wow."
I'm gonna go bang my head against a desk for a while, okay?
ETA - And, half an hour later, we have an patron complaining bitterly that our computers are too slow. Sir, the computers are too slow because many people in this county feel that the library having computers at all - indeed, the library having a functioning building, let alone computers - is a needless luxury and thus we have no money to pay for better ones. Maybe you could talk to your friends about this problem, rather than crabbing at me about something that I have no power to fix.
