Here in Fort Wayne I know of someone who would probably be /almost/ glad to see something like that, given his semi-coherent ranting in perhaps the most ironic (for our purposes) MySpace group thread ever: http://tinyurl.com/3amrc5
Note that the discussion there becomes almost instantly NSFW, you’ve been warned.
[...] sure it’s not the first, but this picture from Michael Stephens is so sad. This is why I love that my job lets me go out to libraries and educate [...]
So a communication tool used primarily by youth (and some of us that are maybe not so young anymore!) has been banned. Imagine the outcry if they banned email on the public computers …
One of my colleagues talks about the teens that go to her branch in comparison to her “regular” patrons. They’re ALL our regular patrons and this kind of banning reflects that split view of our patrons.
Wow.
Here in Fort Wayne I know of someone who would probably be /almost/ glad to see something like that, given his semi-coherent ranting in perhaps the most ironic (for our purposes) MySpace group thread ever: http://tinyurl.com/3amrc5
Note that the discussion there becomes almost instantly NSFW, you’ve been warned.
hmmmm…..maybe they should put a sign below that says….”Patrons go away.”
[...] sure it’s not the first, but this picture from Michael Stephens is so sad. This is why I love that my job lets me go out to libraries and educate [...]
[...] http://tametheweb.com/2008/03/22/stopped-by-mishawaka-penn-harris-public-library-to-see-for-myself/?… [...]
So a communication tool used primarily by youth (and some of us that are maybe not so young anymore!) has been banned. Imagine the outcry if they banned email on the public computers …
One of my colleagues talks about the teens that go to her branch in comparison to her “regular” patrons. They’re ALL our regular patrons and this kind of banning reflects that split view of our patrons.