[LM_NET] Update on Maplewood NJ Public Library's Shutting out kids

[Josephine Dervan <rderva@INFIONLINE.NET>]

Found this in the current ALA Direct.  The local mayor is offering to
supply "sensitive" guards to keep order in library:

Maplewood Mayor Offers More Library Security

Shortly after trustees of the Maplewood (N.J.) Memorial Library decided to
close the building for more than two hours on weekdays because loud teens
from a nearby middle school were disrupting service, Mayor Fred Profeta
offered to supply security guards to keep order. The library board voted
December 20 to shut down the main and Hilton branch libraries from 2:45 to
5:00 p.m., effective January 16, because the students “are not using
library resources but are congregating in the building to socialize with
friends,” the trustees wrote in a message on the library’s website. “Having
as many as fifty young people with nothing to do creates an untenable
situation.” 

http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/currentnews/newsarchive/2007/january2007/map
lewood.cfm

Josephine Dervan, Library Media Specialist
Strathmore School
Aberdeen, NJ

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

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