- Mood: frustrated
- Music: humming of the computer
- Word of the Day: idiocy
You'd think I would be a fan of libraries. I can't stand the city library here though. They barely have any books . . . you'd think a popular, recently published book would be available, but no, generally they aren't. The library here doesn't seem to exist to make life easier for the taxpayers and let them read books. They'll buy a copy of a book and put it in the bookmobile. No copies in the main library, just the bookmobile. So if you want THAT book, you must run all over the city to find it. It would be much more efficient to have copies of all the bookmobile books in the main library as well. And then there's the issue I've been running into tonight. They have a special room set aside in the library for all those books published/illustrated/written by city folk. How cute, right? No. These books are non-circulating! Whoever thought that one up was a genius. Hey, let's put copies of books we feel we should be proud of in a special room where NO ONE can get to them! Brilliant. How better to celebrate a book than by keeping it away from everyone. And even smarter, let's do this to not just one copy, but several. Let's own TWO copies of a book and let neither one of them (mass-market paperbacks!!!!!) see the light of day. I guess we'll find out what happens when I inter-library loan that title . . . 
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Wow thats pretty awful. My local library in Richmond is much better then that! I haven't been to any libraries here in Switzerland, I rather buy the book I guess. 
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