Done, although if the options were - libraries staffed with volunteers or no library, I'd have it staffed with volunteers. PS - my local library is brilliant and so are the staff.
No place for libraries in the modern world. The human race and the colonies it has developed need to move forward and take steps to the next technological 'age'. We have ebooks now and the worlds biggest library is available at your fingertips from the comfort of your own home. The space a physical library occupies is needed for new homes for asylum seekers etc. So with a light heart Chazz I hope it closes. Twice.
I use Avenues library for myself and for my kids. We go most weekends. We used to be able to go anytime on Saturdays but it's already been slashed and closes after lunch on a Saturday now so we have to go early or not at all. The conspiracy theorists among you may theorise that they have deliberately made the opening times awkward so that they can say the number of people using the services is falling. That gives them carte blanche to cut opening hours even further. Sneaky, eh? I say - leave our ****ing libraries alone. Yet another reprehensible attack on a public service. When I was a lad I virtually lived in the library. I don't know where I would be now if I hadn't. They'll fight to close every ****ing one if they can, then they'll whinge and whine about kids turning out illiterate with no prospects... libraries aren't just about books anyway, they're a community resource, a meeting place, a place to learn, a place to find solace and peace n quiet... internet access for everyone - even the poor (but who cares about THEM, eh?). My kids are doing the summer reading challenge this year, as they did last year - without the library that would be a non-starter. It's a great thing, encouraging kids of any background to read during the summer when they're not at school. Went in last weekend to take their latest books back and the reading challenge desk was staffed by, yes you guessed it, a volunteer. Essentially that's not so bad, it was a young lass and if nothing else it gives her something to put on a future CV (she was exceptionally polite and friendly and was doing a great job by the way) - as a bit of summer work experience for a young person, fair enough. But the people holding the purse strings need to understand that libraries aren't a "nice to have", they're a vital part of the community and must be protected at all costs. Rant over. I'll be doing the survey in a minute. Share it on social media and get the message across before they trample all over our libraries.
I do hope you're taking the piss, or else that's the biggest pile of bullshit ever vomited onto a computer screen.
Also used to spend a lot of time in my local library. Encouraged my kids to do likewise. However now it is indeed, as you say, just not about books. In fact books are almost an irrelevance. Far from being a place of quiet and solace there is more noise than my local pub with bunches of kids on computers. I don't think they are on them because they are poor looking at the clothes they wear and the phones and tablets they have either them. Times change. Unfortunately not always for the better.
I filled it in, I did not put my full postcode I just used HU6. Libraries are very important. If our over paid councillors and executive officers took a pay cut, stopped taling about pavement fountains in Victoria Square, moving Wilberforce Monument etc.. they could keep all the libraries open. They could also sell more KC shares to raise money or perhaps sell the KC STADIUM to the local Premiership Football Team.
Maybe if the labour lot took a small pay cut we could keep some of the libraries open? Oh no wait a minute, if they don't close things like this, that cause uproar, how on earth will they get elected at the next general election? They don't need to close libraries they just are doing.
Unfortunately you're wrong on this. My local library is busy every time I go in (something I have today made clear to our beloved council). Central Library is always busy whenever we go in (reasonably often). Lots of people do use them. They just happen to be an easy target. AGAIN.
