“I went to my own public library the other day with my 11-year-old daughter and was horrified to see a television monitor running videos in the children’s section – not a kid in the stacks and all the rest lined up to play games at the computers. It was a library that had gotten everything exactly wrong.”
Librarian William Wisner doesn’t like what’s happening to libraries and urges a return to a role as “captains of the information superhighway”. Libraries are popular, he says, only because everything is free. But is that enough to survive in tough budget times.
Restoring the “Noble Purpose” of Libraries
“I went to my own public library the other day with my 11-year-old daughter and was horrified to see a television monitor running videos in the children’s section – not a kid in the stacks and all the rest lined up to play games at the computers. It was a library that had gotten everything exactly wrong.”
Librarian William Wisner doesn’t like what’s happening to libraries and urges a return to a role as “captains of the information superhighway”. Libraries are popular, he says, only because everything is free. But is that enough to survive in tough budget times.