The director of the libraries in Midland, Texas, John Trischilli lll, was recently elected to a school board position. Maybe we can expect to see the same thing happen to the schools as happened to the library.
The new library -- called Centennial Library -- is visually pleasing and very trendy. The library has some really interesting displays of swimming fish projected onto the floor. It's got oodles of computers for visitors. It has meeting rooms -- although you have get yourself on the approved users list. And it has various visiting exhibits. What's missing from this list? Books.
To be fair, it has books but not nearly enough. And a search of the library online card category for any book over a few years old comes up negative. The old books must be at the old library which is undergoing remodeling. Here's hoping they will become available again once the old library is reopened. In the meantime, the nearby Ector County Library is the go-to library for many books that the Midland County Library doesn't have.
And I might add in passing, although I don't know what to make of this. The Midland County Library has removed at least two conservative writers' books from its shelves: Jonah Golberg and Greg Gutfeld.
[Aside: Maybe the libraries are helping create, or at least adapting to a world without books. One has to wonder whether schools are undergoing the same type of transformation.]
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2:04 PM 4/16/2019
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