Comments on: Save LAPL – did you know it needed saving? http://www.librarian.net/stax/2279/save-lapl-did-you-know-it-needed-saving/ putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:05:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: elswhere http://www.librarian.net/stax/2279/save-lapl-did-you-know-it-needed-saving/comment-page-1/#comment-118524 elswhere Thu, 01 May 2008 17:09:37 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/?p=2279#comment-118524 I know this is somewhat tangential, but this isn't that uncommon where I am now--at the library in the city I recently moved to, Burnaby, BC, they charged 50 cents to put books on hold until very recently; now they give everyone 30 (why 30??) free holds per year. Even at the Vancouver Public Library, you only get 50 free holds per year. Having come from Seattle, I was shocked and appalled. On the other hand, there is that health care thing... Hope LAPL staves it off. Charging for holds seems profoundly undemocratic to me. I know this is somewhat tangential, but this isn’t that uncommon where I am now–at the library in the city I recently moved to, Burnaby, BC, they charged 50 cents to put books on hold until very recently; now they give everyone 30 (why 30??) free holds per year. Even at the Vancouver Public Library, you only get 50 free holds per year. Having come from Seattle, I was shocked and appalled.

On the other hand, there is that health care thing…

Hope LAPL staves it off. Charging for holds seems profoundly undemocratic to me.

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