{"id":967,"date":"2009-10-24T21:19:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T02:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/blog\/?p=967"},"modified":"2009-10-24T21:19:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T02:19:52","slug":"no-book-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/rants\/no-book-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"No Book For You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Governor Rendell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/midstate\/index.ssf\/2009\/10\/governor_ed_rendell_approves_2.html\">approved<\/a> the new state budget where  our property taxes remain the same, more money is put into the public schools  and the money for the public library gets cut. Yesterday I was told that in the  near future they&#8217;d be charging for inter-library loans. An elderly lady on the  line started stammering that it&#8217;s fair, it&#8217;s fair.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the state (<a href=\"http:\/\/pala.affiniscape.com\/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&amp;subarticlenbr=241\">like many states<\/a>) has decided that putting more money into  the school is fine when you can cut library funding. Is it just me that thinks  that the library is an integral part of education? I spent many an afternoon in  the public library of New York, not only picking up something for school but  reading for pleasure. I think it is part of the stuff that made me the person I  am today (be that good or bad).<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not the only reason it&#8217;s messed up. The fact is  that the library was an area they could cut because people aren&#8217;t using it.  Being homeschoolers, my wife makes use of the library every week. But being a  constant student anyway, I personally make just as much use of the libraries in  my area (the two public and the one university library). In the summer the  library is somewhat busy, a buzz with parents getting their kids out of the  house, but during the school year\u2014at just about any hour\u2014the attendance dips  considerably. I don&#8217;t think this justifies the budget, but if they were just  looking at ink on a page then you can see how someone would draw the conclusion  to start slashing.<\/p>\n<p>I also wonder what they&#8217;re going to charge for these  inter-library loans. I&#8217;m constantly getting some pretty hefty books and if they  start charging shipping I might start leaning more towards buying some of these  titles; albeit not the super expensive ones.<\/p>\n<p>At least we don&#8217;t have any librarian Nazi ripping books out  of my hand and charging me unnecessary late fees.\u00a0 Well&#8230;not yet, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Governor Rendell approved the new state budget where our property taxes remain the same, more money is put into the public schools and the money for the public library gets cut. Yesterday I was told that in the near future they&#8217;d be charging for inter-library loans. An elderly lady on the line started stammering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}