[Web4lib] Re: Future of libraries

[Brian Gray]

I am not sure that I would say tech savvy people only can use
libraries in the evening.

Also, most libraries I know that made cuts based it on in-house
statistics of usage and not on servicing the daytime crowd.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com


On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Jennifer Heise <jenne.heise at gmail.com> wrote:
> >From my experience of the tech-savvy, one thing libraries are doing
> that loses them the tech-savvy crowd is *closing early*. When faced
> with a choice between a library that closes at 5 on Fridays, and
> Saturdays, 9 or even earlier during the week, and may not even be open
> on the weekends, the big chain bookstore or the Internet bookstore
> sure looks like a better bet to my compatriots.   Many public
> libraries cling to the 9 to 5 slot because that's when stay-at-home
> parents and senior citizens come in-- but that would seem to serve
> them ill when it comes to full-time working people who don't get home
> until 7 or 8 at night!