opeathrowaway t1_iuje5ik wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:48 PM

Reply to comment by FlyingPurpleUnicorn in Buy your books or use the library more? by Sleepy_Like_Me

The village I’m in has “Covid” hours & “school” hours in place 10am-1pm 2 days a week if the wind blows and the bird snorts at 3:27am on the third Friday of the month and won’t participate in any interlibrary loan, won’t post the catalog or anything schedule updates and if you call during post hours you can’t speak to anyone; forget email.

Basically my county in the US “has” a library in name only. It was absorbed by the high school about 10 years back and it quit being available to the public. Mostly farmers, Amish, and retired illiterate folks that worked at factories long shuddered.

FlyingPurpleUnicorn t1_iujy4kl wrote on October 31, 2022 at 10:09 PM

Geez, my heart goes out to you. That's a real shame.

South_Honey2705 t1_iuk3wn7 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 10:55 PM

Oh my gosh that's horrible. I thought I had it bad as a teenager in a one horse New Hampshire village with thee library being only open for 2 hours 1 day a week.

opeathrowaway t1_iuk5r1j wrote on October 31, 2022 at 11:09 PM

We’re in hardcore Midwest misery; tbf the biggest demographic that used the library died off in the last 5 or so years (age + covid) so with that and less and less funding, we’re lucky we have a school and adjacent library for them. The school district went from 2 elementary schools, a middle and high, but now we have all the kids in the high school.