Yet libraries still seem to be receiving overwhelmingly positive support from local communities. Even when circulation and reference statistics are stagnating or declining. Positive support even from survey respondents who state they seldom, if ever, use the library.
But there are money problems. And the things we provide, and the people we hire to help provide them, don't come cheap. At some point, (and that point may be sooner than we know) we may be faced with some hard decisions about the future of public library service.
Here are some choices to ponder:
- Children's programing vs. Reference services
- Materials vs. Computers and online access
- Online materials and databases vs. Open hours
3 comments:
Hello Dennis: I don't know if it is my computer or your blog, but when I call it up, I get the following message appears that I can't get rid of: "Allow sub-frames to navigate across different domains?"
Maybe one of our fearless instructors can help with this.
Mary Friesen
Hi Mary,
I got a similar pop-up on different sites and did a Google search of the phrase by cutting and pasting it. It led me to the following online post and solution: http://www.mcse.ms/message1810010.html
So, it seems it's a combination of your computer and my blog that's causing the problems.
Dennis
It's most likely that we will choose to not choose but instead try to continue to do it all and thus produce a mediocre service in many areas.
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