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Originally Posted by someone123
Gloria almost flipped? That's rich coming from a councillor in an area that has the most elaborate HRM development constructed in recent years while having a significantly smaller population than the peninsula and a much lower level of overall regional importance.
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As a big fan of Gloria myself, I find it difficult to say her attitude towards this project has disappointed me somewhat.
However I'm curious about one part of your remark there; exactly what development are you referring to? I hope you're not referring to Dartmouth Crossing...
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Originally Posted by Keith P.
Agreed. As stated many times, the argument is not against a new library, it is against this specific proposal.
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It's not against a new library, it's just against
this new library. I see.
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That really is a big part of the problem as I see it. The library currently offers a suite of services. This proposal calls for a significant expansion of not just the facilities but of the entire role of the institution, with all of the operating cost implications that contains.
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Why do you have a problem with the role of the library changing with the times? Other institutions are allowed to evolve to meet the needs of their users and the public at large, why is the library supposed to stay stagnant? To you, and I've said this before, it seems a library should be a room full of books and nothing more, but whether you like it or not the library system around here hasn't been like that for at least 10-15 years, the range of services is much broader than it was 30 years ago, and it will continue to broaden to meet the needs of the population.
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All those meeting rooms will require staff to set them up, clean them, etc.
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I think they probably realize their staffing needs will be increased, they're not stupid. Besides, it's not like they hire people whose sole job it is to setup and clean meeting rooms.
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I also question why the library chooses to compete with the private sector by offering DVDs that I can walk down the street and rent.
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Libraries have been offering DVDs for the last, jeez almost 10 years now? And before that you could borrow VHS tapes for the longest time, plus music CDs and audio cassettes, books on tape, materials for the visually impaired, etc. Multimedia isn't something new in the last couple of years.
Besides, you pay money to rent or buy DVDs down the road, you don't pay any money to borrow a DVD from the library. Given the huge popularity and the number of DVD returns we processed on any given day of the week, the demand is definitely out there.