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Comment on Save your library by Keenan Weaver

Keenan Weaver — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:38:19 +0000

As a young journalist I recognize the importance of community resource centres and gathering places for people of all ages. I love the fact that so many people are taking a stand against the unwanted changes. My name’s Keenan Weaver, I’m currently in the journalism program at Loyalist College and am working on a story about this issue to help raise awareness on all aspects of it. If you’d like to provide input on the subject for on-air radio and online publication please let me know and I’d be more than happy to arrange a meeting or interview. Send me an email to weaver.keenan@gmail.com and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
Thanks,
and long live the public library.

Comment on Save your library by Joanne Pringle

Joanne Pringle — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:27:45 +0000

Please do not destroy our local libraries!!!!!!

Comment on Save your library by Anthony Pound

Anthony Pound — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 03:00:04 +0000

I’m curious, what extra-curricular activities are going to be implemented to keep young kids and teens occupied and out of trouble if you get rid our local libraries? Please reconsider the damage that you are potentially causing to young people and their education.

Comment on Save your library by Brandi Jo Pound

Brandi Jo Pound — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:52:42 +0000

PLEASE SAVE OUR SMALL TOWN LIBRARIES!!!!!!!!!!!!
I absolutely love the Bloomfield library it is so close and convenient to our home and as a child growing up it was an asset to my expanding education!!!!!! It is close to the Elementary school and it’s great for families to take their children to. As my son gets older and requires resources to help him with his education I hope that the library will still be there for him. Please do not destroy our libraries!!!!!!!!

Comment on Save your library by Lorraine and Fred Ireland

Lorraine and Fred Ireland — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:46:46 +0000

We are very disappointed in our municipal government for considering the closing of a number of our libraries. These instutions have always been important in our thirst for knowledge from the very young to the elderly.

Lorraine Ireland

Comment on Save your library by Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:22:21 +0000

I am curious (having been one) how young mothers get to the library with only 1 household vehicle that is gone during the day. When will it end??? Libraries are much more then just books, for some children and young mom’s it’s a lifeline.

Comment on Save your library by Sue Keller

Sue Keller — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:27:06 +0000

If I remember correctly the land for the Bloomfield library was willed to Bloomfield for the use of a library only! This land is library land and in fact the Bloomfield Women’s Institute moved the building that houses our library to its present domain. This piece of heritage cannot be changed.

Comment on Save your library by Mary MacDonald

Mary MacDonald — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:30:59 +0000

The Bloomfield Library, like the others being discussed for closure, is an important community asset that far outweighs the very small amount of funding that would be saved if the library is closed.

How strange that the County administration is proposing shutting down a low cost facility that provides social, cultural and learning opportunities for people in the village and surrounding areas – for people who are committed to living and working in the County year-round. Economic development initiatives are important but they’re not the ONLY important contribution to a strong quality of life in the County. Mr Mayor and Council, do not close these libraries.

Comment on Save your library by Library defends value of branches suggested to be surplus : Prince Edward County News countylive.ca

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:26:43 +0000

[...] The library has created a petition that needs to be signed in advance of the March 14 meeting. It can be signed at any branch and is also available online: http://www.peclibrarynews.org/?p=442 [...]

Comment on Save your library by Barbara Storch

Barbara Storch — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:02:53 +0000

Funding for our libraries should not be reduced, it should be increased and closing of any of our libraries is unacceptable, they are essential to our communities for a life long learning tool… for expanding our knowledge and for reference to help us at least try to keep up with the fast speed of absorbing and retaining the information that we must deal with on a daily basis, and last but not least for exercising our minds. Try to imagine any place of learning without a library…… I am unable to understand the thinking of the decision making individuals who refuse to realize that knowledge is power….. and these same individuals who are obviously in denial about the importance of knowledge for competing in our fast paced world.
The preparedness of our students especially, is being compromised each and every day by not providing the necessary tools to compete effectively,,,,,,,,,, this is definitely a case where more is less.