they don't want their library expanded BECAUSE POOR KIDS MAY USE IT
(yes, really)
Library Expansion in Posh NY Hood Goes On
By Rocco Staino -- School Library Journal,
A year after SLJ reported on the contentious dispute over a proposal to add a children’s room to the East Hampton Library in New York, the kids of the posh summer community are no closer to seeing it become a reality. Library Director Dennis Fabiszak has said that the East Hampton Village Board of Zoning Appeals has expressed concern that an expanded children’s collection would lead to more library usage by those who live in the less affluent areas of Springs and Wainscott.As recently as July 2, the village zoning board is still requiring that the library submit to an environmental review, adds Fabiszak. The local zoning board has taken this position despite a statement from the consul for the New York State Department of Environmental Conversation (NYSDEC) stating that the library is an “educational institution” and according to regulations is exempt from such a review. The NYSDEC letter to the zoning board reaffirmed a prior determination from the state’s Department of Education.......
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Think that library needs more Dickens...or possibly Marx.
man, i LOVE me some dickens! (i did read marx once, a LONG time ago and i don't remember it so i guess i wasn't impressed)
i just bought a kindle. that is very unlike me. really, it is. i don't know. temporary insanity. anyway............ one of the first things i downloaded was a bunch of dickens.
oh, alice in wonderland and through the looking glass as well
Kindle's a reasonable option, I think, if you're the kind of person who thinks of book acquisition in terms of available cubic feet.
I tend to think of Dickens and Marx as two sides of a coin, one using (primarily) fiction and the other using journalism and political theory to talk about the same things, at the same time, in (for awhile) the same place.
i would NEVER give real books up. EVER
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