Some of my readers know that I have been following this ongoing story at Susan Wise Bauer’s blog. We wrote about it here and here.
Here is a snippet from Susan’s latest update.
While I appreciate the sentiments some of you have sent this way, along the lines of, “They’re going to wish they hadn’t messed with you!”, the truth is that a public institution which decides to stonewall the public has most of the power on its side.
I sincerely hope that residents of Williamsburg, York County, and James City will hold this board to account.
In the meantime, the kids and I went over to the Yorktown Library, which offers free cards to all Virginia residents, and applied for library cards. We were welcomed warmly, told what a shame it was that WRL was kicking us out, given full access to all library services, and allowed to check out thirty items each.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m incredibly grateful. The Yorktown Library is more than twice as far away, but if I have to (which apparently I do), I can deal with that. My daughter, who cried when I told her we couldn’t go back to Her Library any more, found many of her old favorites and quite a few new ones and was comforted. I checked out three weeks’ worth of reading. My sons stocked up. I intend to join the Friends of the Library.
But in what universe does this make sense?
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