Re: Mr. Trelease's Article

[Josephine Dervan <rderva@injersey.infi.net>]

Dear All,

I'm back from vacation and from teaching an on-line grad course. I
opened my mail to find this new thread about the Jim Tralease
article. I seem to remember the "library vs bookstore" discussion
here before. I live in a town with a dingy, overcrowded public
library where people are not encouraged to linger. The B&N store a
few miles away is always filled with readers sitting around
enjoying a book (no coffee shop yet). Why? It's inviting! They
even have staff recommendations of books that they put a special
discount on.

My local library board has been lobbying for a new, more inviting
building and we are now very near our goal. Hopefully we'll give
B&N some competition. :-)

On another pro-library issue: I recently returned from a European
vacation where I kept in tough with my kids via e-mail. We would
go to the local Internet cafe where I was usually the oldest user
in the room. While I used the computers, my husband would relax
and enjoy a beer! Anyway there was always a fee and these places
were not inviting only convenient.

I got home to find an article in the local paper about foreign
students who have been hired to work in the resort areas of the
Jersey Shore for the summer. How did they contact their family? By
using the FREE Internet at their local public libraries. Score one
for us!

Jo

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Josephine G. Dervan, Library Media Specialist
Strathmore Elementary School
Aberdeen, NJ 07747

Home- rderva@injersey.infi.net

He who has a garden and a library, wants for nothing- Cicero

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