[Publib] Public park around library property

[Mark Arend]

One of our member libraries is in one corner of a block that is otherwise a little-used city park.  They'd like to expand but are getting resistance from city council members who don't want to see parkland built on.





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> bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Theresa Grieshaber
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 1:51 PM
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>     Think twice about this!  In theory it's a lovely concept.  It's SO-
> O pretty to think of a nice quiet library filled with people who take
> their books  outside and sun themselves in the park.
> 
>     Here's the truth:  Too many parks are filled with people doing
> things they shouldn't.  There's the drunk sleeping off his hangover.
> There's the gang members doing tagging or fighting.  There's the wet
> kids who played in the sprinklers dripping  water all over your lobby
> floor and creating a slip and fall hazard because they just have to use
> the facilities. There's the pervert doing...well never mind.
> 
>     In other words, the lawless, disorderly, nuisance behavior in the
> park gets dragged into the library.  Once your library gets a
> reputation for for having a creepy clientele, no one, not staff or
> customers will want to go there.  You will have to lock the restrooms
> and spend more on graffiti removal and security guards.
> 
>       Just my own opinion.
> 
>       Theresa Grieshaber
>        Modesto CA
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