Things I Love at the Library

Evenings Free, if you’re still reading this thread, I apologize for my condescending tone. I think I’m just not sure why you’re unhappy with your public library, and concerned about your determination to fix that with what you term an ‘independent lending library,’ by which I don’t know what you mean.

We’re all trying to find ways to patch things together in this day and age (so much feels so insurmountable). Again, as a public librarian in a city library that’s open from 9am-9pm daily, I adore providing readers advisory and hearing patrons’ library stories and I love when I have a day that feels like a real library day. I also proudly (and sometimes sadly) work through days filled with incidents of all sorts (medical, behavioral, etc.) in which I help people who are homeless, unemployed, addicted, single parents, poverty-stricken, etc…! Libraries have certainly changed, and due to that note in your comment, I think I did project something onto it that may not have not been there. But the things you said in the original and the follow-up were so confusing, such as “I’m just one of many people in our county who see the shift in library spaces and I’m happy to use the library that my tax dollars pay for in the ways that I want to.” This sounds great! But… you just said you were trying to create an “independent lending library in our area to provide the library experience to those who want it.” What does this mean?! Would like to hear more if you’re still here.