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This must have been designed by someone not living in Minnesota. Who wants to stand outside city hall in our -30 degree winters - unlocking a locker while wearing thick gloves, no less? I'm wary of this kind of lending/vending because then people don't need to go *into* the library, where they might browse shelves, find other materials, and build community. 

Sarah, who moved from Los Angeles to St. Paul in January 2009 when it was 70 in LA and -30 in St. Paul

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:17 PM, B.G. Sloan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From the Wall Street Journal:

"In this suburb of St. Paul, the new library branch has no librarians, no card catalog and no comfortable chairs in which to curl up and read. Instead, the Library Express is a stack of metal lockers outside city hall. When patrons want a book or DVD, they order it online and pick it up from a digitally locked, glove-compartment- sized cubby a few days later."

Full text: http://bit.ly/dij9y8

Bernie Sloan






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