This is why we don't need a new Library "There Very Dangerous"!!!!

Tivertonian: perhaps a visit to the a new library could help you. You meant "THEY'RE very dangerous" (you're not indicating a location, but meaning "they are...). I vote "Yes" for the new library.

I and every person I know will be voting no. It is way too big and expensive. No one is talking about the costs to maintain and heat and aircondition that great big building. What will happen to the old buildings the same thing that happened with the schools? Now is not the time and the building is way too big and furthermore libraries are a thing of the past. This false talking point about meeting rooms is just so untrue. This town has plenty of buildings with room for meetings. In some cases the buildings are not even owned by the town. What if the promised funding does not come in? Guess who will be paying the bill. I am tired of this BS that libraries help business development. Well if that were true RI would be booming right now. I saw the movie with all types of spin with no talk about expenses. Buy every one in town a Kindle and get rid of hard copy books. There will be lots of space!! No now is just not the time.

How about praising the calm response of the bystanders and the professional response of the Tiverton Police and Fire Departments since this is what the story is about. I think the people who helped this woman trapped in the car did an excellent job as far as the story reads. Since the word, "Library" appeared in the article, a debate about the vote on the library, I guess, is inevitable. How about being proud of the people who responded to save this woman? I know I am!! Since it was brought up though, I will be voting for the new library, as will every person I know, (which happens to be a lot of people) because they feel that it will benefit a most of the town and it's people. We will lose our membership in the Newport County library network, which has many benefits for members of the library. If the old library is brought up to code, much like the new schools, they can be rented out, bringing in revenue for the town. Who would rent these old buildings? Well the YMCA wants to use the Nonquit school for a satellite recreational camp, and they are willing to pay for it. There will be groups who want to use the old buildings. We just have to be creative and make it happen instead of finding a way to not make things happen and say no.

Oh yea Tivertonian gotta watch out for those libraries because they are gunna get ya! REALLY?! "very dangerous" I couldn't stop laughing after i read that!

I see many times people hit the gas by mistake and crash in to store fronts. That's why we have fire and rescue. It happens

Rug Doctor , once again distort proven facts, i would ask that any casual readers of Patch the read this article go to the library website to see just how much of rug doctors statements are true, thank you

I am glad no one was hurt, for the elderly and the handicapped Essex can be a very hard place to access, anyone who has parents who read should keep this in mind

RUG DOCTOR, you are beginning to sound like Dan Gordon yourself,there are no lies or distortion of any kind in the website. Why are the same names that appear again and again against improvements in this town, why are they always the nameless few?

a public library is not a school library, by law the funds canniot be co mingled, would you care to point out the waste and corruption you refer to and who preformed these acts, it would be very helpful to the openess of this process for you to expand on your inside knowledge! I and i am sure other Patch readers await your reply and the facts you will bringing out.

Nice people you have alligned yourself with JimL.

still waiting to hear about the corruption, the site for the library was chosen because of access to the whole town, didn't cost the town one penny, town still has the school land,didn't lose a thing. oyu call them like you want them to be, not as they are. IF you go to the library at all would you like to fight the traffic when school gets out? After a basketball game?Saying we don't need a new library is akin to saying we don't need a grocery store, we went this long withouy so why get one now?

Why did we add to the town hall? how come we built fire stations around town? built new schools? a new police station? because they were all to small for the needs of this town,You want to keep this a small town with just Dunkin Donuts for jobs? Then vote down the Library, thats what an election is for, but stop the lies and mistruths, put up your facts instead on vague comments backed by no FACTS, cowardly acts at the best

And if you read the facts the cost running this library will be less, as for the people i align myself with, i find them to be honest folk, and you can't get a library card with a fake name so a few of you are gonna miss out

Jim L is the library going to bring all of this new business to Tiverton. NO!!! The City of Warwick, Town of East Greenwich all have these types of facilities. Where is all the new business? This town can not afford this large building at this time!!! Where are the facts that we need all these meeting rooms? The Assisted Living, Coutry View estates, all types of town owned buildings are available.

Jim L your the one crying about when the old schools will be sold. The same kind of thing will happen with these buildings....

It's good to see I am not alone in believing this plan for the new library is way over the top and not affordable. How many people know the state is telling us to add a million and a half dollars to the pension payment next year all while school funding is cut again.

Public libraries fulfilled a useful purpose in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries but the age of books printed on paper and bound in cardboard is coming to an end. Within the next few years books will largely be delivered by electronic methods. If there continues to be a need for a public lending service this will also be provided electronically. In the second decade of the 21st century it is a total waste of money to erect a new building to house tons of paper and cardboard.

Ebook lending libraries are coming. http://www.almostzara.com/2010/02/ebook-lending-libraries-the-future-of-fiction/

It's early days yet but it's only a matter time before ebooks will be the norm and the old paper and cardboard depositories will fade away. Instead of building a vast white elephant to store dead trees why doesn't Tiverton work out how to be a leader and a role model for a public library based on the e-lending model? Maybe we could even get a grant from some technology entrepreneur interested in this concept?

Check out this link: http://www.eff.org/wp/digital-books-and-your-rights
or this one: http://futureoftheinternet.org/censoring-books
or this one: http://www.slate.com/id/2223214/
Amazon is already deleating some books from customers' Kindles they can't do that with a "paper and cardboard" book. I don't want Amazon deciding what I read.
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The very first time I went to that library I said to myself that im surprised a car hasnt fallen between the library and the parking lot yet so when I heard on the news that it finally did happen it didnt surprise me in the least. I knew it would happen one day.

Caroline very well said!!!!

I made a comment about the unfortunate accident and my inbox is full of crap from a disgruntled library aide? Find a new job, card catalogs are a thing of the past and libraries should be, too. Life goes on, go find yourself.

-SS

still waiting for the facts Ms Evans, if you stand by your acusations please bring them forward, and where do live now?

ms evans i have you my true name each time i have asked you to give proof of coruption and misdeeds that YOU say YOU saw take place while watching if not part of the library commitee, in as much as i find these folks outstanding citizensI AGAIN ask YOU to bring forth your proof,I do not know you but it seems that other folks that know you seem and just dismiss your statement as sour grapes from a bitter woman. Which is it? PROOF please!

Derek & Robert, thanks for the pros/cons of e-books...looks like intellectual property attorneys will be not be collecting unemployment, given the issues involved, as Robert cited in his reference to Amazon's (unauthorized, or authorized?) deletion of Orwell's 1984 from e-tablets. Interesting.

Jeff Chang:
"And that is the way the world changes—the world changes through the culture first. Cultural change always precedes political change..we are the ones who make it move—those of us who are artists, community builders, those who support artists and community builders. We change the culture, and politics follows.The folks who are against us, who are against a vibrant vital public core, know this.

The budget cuts inflicted we face here and all around the country are about laying waste to the public space and fencing it off. And they are about stopping cultural change right where it begins.We are now in an era where they are pushing privatization towards its last frontier: the collective imagination. And we cannot allow that. We have to stop them right here in their tracks...

When I go into a library, I don’t have to worry about why this book didn’t sell enough to continue to be available in any marketplace, how many other stories there are out there I am missing...In the library, I am in a space beyond the marketplace, beyond consumption, beyond the money censors..The library is the embodiment and the refuge of our collective imagination. In the library, we learn just how big and full of possibility the world is and we build the kindling to fuel our creative fires and to change our culture.Those two transformative acts are too important just to leave to the playgrounds and the graveyards of the marketplace."

Looks like someone was so DESPERATE for the new library..lol. This is ridiculous! There is no way for this to happen unless you accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake. Maybe shes too old to be driving! THeres plenty of space and parking space at the library!

you folks do know this happen in September right? glad to see your so up to date with things

Hey JimL not his real name, climb back in your hole you old hippy dip and take some pictures around town you unemployed old fool

stoney larue is back another! new name huh? how long will you last this time zero?