As i have been living in Germany for 26 years I have not been to the local library in my home town USA. This summer when vacationing and visiting my parents,i was asked to pick up a book my father had ordered at the local library.
Shocked!!!
The number of books are few, computers are there and there is no card catalog!!! The library seems so uninviting - i remember the happy hours looking up entries in the card catalog or just perusing books with subjects i have not been introduced to.
Absolutely no debth of thought - depressing.
If i wanted to lend a movie.. good. If i wanted a book on physics, Shakespear order only. The library was a place for thought, research and discovery. Now i see almost no purpose.
Very sad indeed!
WD