Scottsville is an excellent library, and the librarians are pros. The curmudgeonly and starkly judgmental reviews here are a sad sign of the times when folks can't see past their own prejudice and fears.
Libraries (and language and countries, for that matter) are not staid monoliths that never change or evolve. Since the pandemic libraries have evolved into places of fun, active learning and, yes Mr. Grumpy, entertainment. As for luring children and young people into their doors, that's the whole idea if you happened to miss it. Fostering reading and curiosity in our youth is the only way to build a society that can survive. Children and youth belong at libraries, indeed we need them to drag us there and if we are to thrive as a community and as a Republic. And if they squeal with delight while attending a live program, or cheer while playing a video game, or snicker while listening to an audiobook or even cry while their older siblings read a book (for shame!!). Well that might well be overlooked as your Civil Duty. There are no "good ole days" to "go back" to.
No library can be a silent, moribund, crypt. Perhaps that's where you might feel more at home? Yes, "the times" they are changing and for the GOOD when people (ALL people) use their public institutions to better their lot, foster curiosity and industriousness and take their children to the library and USE it. read more