An office with "library rules"

Re:An office with "library rules" by davidvaughan on Monday December 10, 2012 @03:52PM (#4901423)

I noticed my local library got rid of about fifty percent of its few remaining books a couple of weeks ago. The extra space means the body of the building is now devoted to activities relating to schools, I think.

As somebody who once did work experience here: http://tinyurl.com/d28gxz4, I was a bit puzzled to be in an almost bookless library.

I suspect "coffee shop rules" are the future of libraries.

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Re:An office with "library rules" by jff on Monday December 10, 2012 @03:57PM (#4901445)

My local library has a coffee shop in it.

Luckily there are lots of books, I haven't seen them removing any.

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Re:An office with "library rules" by ShawnBird on Monday December 10, 2012 @04:09PM (#4901497)

Luckily there are lots of books, I haven't seen them removing any.

Why is this lucky? Are the books being used?

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Re:An office with "library rules" by jff on Monday December 10, 2012 @05:10PM (#4901793)

Actually yes! It's a pretty nice place.

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Re:An office with "library rules" by ShawnBird on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @02:54PM (#4906453)

Oh, never mind. I have seen some libraries that have very low usage rates of books compared to computers and I would not mourn a scaling down of their books on hand as long as they kept a strong catalog.

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