Comment Not with a bang, but with a whisper... (Score 0) 191
Prattlings from a worker in yet another doomed profession.
I have several friends who work at libraries, and I'm constantly amazed at their delusions of relevance. More and more money spent acquiring multiple copies of best sellers rather than expanding the breadth of the library. Money wasted on video games and popular DVDs.
A single years' budget could buy everyone in my city one of the subsidized Kindles. Lease the real estate to purchase e-books for lending.
Instead, they're expanding the number of libraries but keeping the budget the same, so it'll mean more of the pie going for facilities and salaries and less on content.