[Web4lib] Re: Future of libraries

[Brian Gray]

How is it circular? The person was talking about cutting hours, which
means they do have numbers of actual usage. They were not taking about
adding hours.


Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com


On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Bill Drew <dreww at tc3.edu> wrote:
> The reasoning here is a bit circular.  If a public library was never
> opened until 9 or later at night there would not be any statistics to
> see.  How many public libraries have tried it and found it didn't work?
> That is the important question.  Don't forget union contracts.  No union
> worth its salt would negotiate having its members work until 9 at night
> with out better compensation.  Such services add costs to already
> limited budgets.