re: Baton Rouge council OKs $1.7 million purchase of land in Rouzan for new library branch

bluebonnet library... 7 min drive

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And yes, they keep surplus funds.

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Yup, if you look at past advocate articles you can see that the money is already there for the purchase too. LINK

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The library system uses a pay-as-you-go model for all of its projects, rather than borrowing money. Years ago, library officials set aside $6.7 million for the library’s south branch.

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Considering the design team is selected based on qualifications,

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You can't really believe contracts are awarded in Louisiana based on qualifications, can you?
Even Gary isn't that stupid.

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Yes, I have. I used the Bluebonnet library multiple times to study last year. Had it not been there, then I would have just gone somewhere else (i.e. Lsu's campus). I think the issue is here with most, is the over-populating of local libraries. When is enough enough?

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If the libraries are overcrowded (which they seem to be every time I go), then is it possible that they actually either don't have enough libraries or that they have too many libraries in some areas and not enough in others?

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bluebonnet library... 7 min drive

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Yea we use the Bluebonnet Liberry regularly for the GF and the kids to check out books. I stick to Ebooks on Overdrive and Audio Books on RBDigital(Linked to Liberry too).

I used Goodwood once last year when I wanted to checkout the LPB DVD "Baton Rouge's Troubled Waters". I like the Liberries but I think we have enough of them.

Anyhoots. I really recommend that video to anyone from BR or interested in how segregation affected public pools/spaces/stores in the city. It also gives a very profound look into daily life in the city back in the 50s-early 60s.
My dad lived near downtown BR during that time and confirmed everything I asked him regarding the video.

LBP Baton Rouge's Troubled Waters

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. When is enough enough?

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Exactly the questioN.

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quote: Its not just a place where we store books for people to check out that is what a library is. quote: Libraries now are meeting spaces for people to study, work, use public resources that are largely unavailable elsewhere. sure it is. quote: They host events for speakers on different topics and host networking events. They have career fairs... quote: Leave it to the OT to criticize the BR Metro Council in trying to improve education and employment. they are building multiple useless libraries.... they should be criticized.

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Want to know HOW I know you are stupid?

I am not up to refuting points intellectually today, I am mentally exhausted this week.

Suffice it to say, the internet does NOT have everything, first. Secondly, what it does have, oftentimes is quite expensive and you among many would bitch about having to pay for something that is beyond your price expectations.

Another newsflash, surprisingly enough, many human beings still ****GAAAAAAAAASP**** read monographs, real, physical, printed books and NOT e-books. Shocking, I know, but in my reading over the last couple years, limited, yes, the e-book phenomenon has it's place, but sales have reached a plateau. This is partly due to the pricing, as what were once lower-priced alternatives, e-books are now nearly equal in price to their hard-back counterparts, and sometimes MORE expensive than paper-backs.

Did you know that libraries add e-books to their catalogs that patrons can check-out onto their devices?

So the city-parish will purchase land for $1.7M and pay $20,000 annually in HOA fees when the fight over raising salaries for the few law enforcement members that have stayed to work for one of the most unsupported agencies in the state is still happening.

Baton Rouge will now be nicknamed City of Books. Or the Library of the Deep South.


It's like a fettish.

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but i would still rather pay less taxes and not have this.

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First words of sentences start with capital letters.
The pronoun "I" is always capitalized.
You'd rather pay FEWER taxes.

Perhaps you need to spend some time in a library, you ignorant jackass.