Once again we had a three-day holiday (itself a reason to be grumpy; after all, why do those furloughed federal workers need so many long weekends?), and the city's library was closed. Not for one day of the weekend, not for two, but for all three. And what could be at the bottom of this policy cesspool? Doug Bruce and TABOR? Get a rope. You say our library employees need a break? So close the place every Sunday.
To many of us who rely on the library, locking the joint up for three days running is like closing the banks for three days. And the feds, famous for three-day holidays, don't allow that to happen. So, again, why the library?
I have two neighbors who work at the Longmont library. They deserve their time off. But is this reason enough to shutter the place for three days -- not once, but on two holiday weekends in the season? If there is logic to this it surely escapes me. An inconvenient library is like an inconvenient gas station: I look for ways to go elsewhere. Soon, perhaps, many persons who actually read might do just that. Oh, and my sales tax dollars travel with me. Oops!