[Publib] Re: "entertain our diverse community"

[K.G. Schneider]

> Speaking as a library patron, I don't know that I agree to reject 'just
> entertainment'. Chesterton said, "Literature is a luxury; fiction is a
> necessity." I have been a full-immersion reader of fiction all my life,
> what a friend of mine calls a trance-reader. I wouldn't insist on labeling
> the stepping out of my own self which I seek as something other than
> 'entertainment'. I don't care what we call it: a lot of our users also
> need it.

Perhaps if the mission statement said "delight and comfort"..!

> Also we might need to make a special new label for "materials people can
> check out to help them through long airtravel days". Entertainment as
> necessity.

Like I said...

K.G. Schneider
kgs at bluehighways.com