A brouhaha is brewing in Philadelphia: the mayor is closing 11 library branches, and there is great opposition to such action.
These tough economic times, as we have been saying, have forced a lot of people to find new ways of doing things to save money,” “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams said. “And listen to this next one – with money so tight, the costs of books has people turning to a place where you can actually get books free, then return them for the next user. The library business, it seems, is booming. But now they could use some help in this economy.”
We have been very busy this last week, much more so than usual, and unexpectedly so, surprising many of us.
NBC correspondent Chris Jansing interviewed a librarian that detected an uptick in “wild” behavior at one library – which Jansing deemed a result of the economic downturn. Wild is not a word you usually associate with libraries, but the economic downturn has made them wildly popular,” Jansing said.
According to Jansing, in Philadelphia, there are plans to shut 11 of 54 branches of their library – which was met with an emotional outburst by one resident. I can’t believe anybody is going to close this damn thing down,” said one grown man in tears over a library closing Philadelphia.
There are many stories about the library closings in Philly; a sampling:
Preliminary injunction granted to stop library closings!
Judge halts closure of 11 Philadelphia libraries
Judge to Nutter: Keep those libraries open
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