Comments on: Our Oregonian Future

By: rachel

rachel — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:36:55 +0000

dude, your feed doesn’t work any more. notice how you only have a handful of comments on this post compared to your usual? it’s cause no one can find you!!
and wtf is up with the teeny tiny type??

[AL: It's not me. It's LJ.]

By: me too

me too — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:02:56 +0000

One more stone in the wall between the rich and the poor. Shut down the public library because I can either buy what I need from Amazon or get the information off the internet. Who gives a shi_ about the people who can’t afford to buy what they need.

LSSI sucks. They are like scabs brought in as strike breakers. Woody Guthrie would be supporting our cause now. Ask people who know — the ardent users of public libraries that have been taken over by LSSI. Ask them how service is now compared to when the library was managed at the local level.

Let me say it one more time: LSSI sucks

I live in Oregon and most Oregonians love and support thier public libraries.

By: noutopian

noutopian — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:14:34 +0000

The way I see it, areas dominated by liberals will have public libraries and the rest of the country can seek enlightenment on a diet of talk radio and Fox News.

By: sharon

sharon — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:08:05 +0000

For at least a couple of years now you have railed against public libraries. The public agrees with you. They have Amazon and Powell’s and Netflix and a host of other on-line retailers to supply them with the information that formerly only the public library and full-price stores could supply. What do they need libraries for? You were right. You win.

By: Chesterton

Chesterton — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:50:39 +0000

Maybe if they showed the voters the “Librarians Do Gaga” music video the University of Washington’s School of Information made it would convince them of the worth of libraries and librarians. It’s on youtube.