Comments on: AADL Board Briefed on Public Library Trends http://annarborchronicle.com/2012/08/24/aadl-board-briefed-on-public-library-trends/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=aadl-board-briefed-on-public-library-trends it's like being there Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Edward Vielmetti http://annarborchronicle.com/2012/08/24/aadl-board-briefed-on-public-library-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-122170 Edward Vielmetti Mon, 27 Aug 2012 22:42:45 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=95313#comment-122170 If you haven’t checked out one of the new musical instruments, you should next time you are at the downtown library. After some fiddling around with it, my 2d grader turned a Monotron Delay into a very convincing siren to go with one of his lego creations.

]]> By: Eric http://annarborchronicle.com/2012/08/24/aadl-board-briefed-on-public-library-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-121978 Eric Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:03:29 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=95313#comment-121978 The squanderites who want to keep the library church funded while its diety dies claim that the terminal banks provide a useful public service. People lacking money or skill for a home connection can get on line, do email, search for jobs, etc. Also helps those whose system is on the fritz and passers through.
No doubt some of this happens but a lot of the business is people after sex and pornography. If you walk around the terminal areas downtown at a busy time this is more than obvious. The S&P gang is mostly men who have connection at home and work. They come to the library so others don’t see what they are doing. They are not a pretty bunch, sometimes one hand is on the mouse, the other in the pants.
There is a sign by the desk that asks for consideration in viewing material that others may find offensive but no one does any enforcing. The browser has a filter that takes two clicks and three seconds to turn off. If you mention this activity to library staff they sigh and say well it is regrettable but only mirrors what happen on the internet in general right? That is true enough. However people who do S&P at home are paying for their own device, connection, electricity. At the library the taxpayers provide these things. Why?

]]> By: Edward Vielmetti http://annarborchronicle.com/2012/08/24/aadl-board-briefed-on-public-library-trends/comment-page-1/#comment-121714 Edward Vielmetti Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:16:58 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=95313#comment-121714 > The library bought a license for each of its cardholders at $15 per cardholder – about $10,000 annually – so that anyone can download tracks with no waiting.

Those numbers don’t add up – it’s probably 15 cents, not 15 dollars.

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