"Compaint Box: The Lost Library Voice." New York Times City Room / Sung J. Woo.
New York: New York Times Online, April 9th 2010.
"The library of my youth...was a tomb of peace, where the only sounds were shuffles, whispers and the occasional shush — delivered with an index finger crossing the lips of a bespectacled, cardigan-wearing librarian. These days...I have to play an MP3 file in a loop — a sound bite of a hair dryer blasting between my ears — because without the white noise, I would not be able to think straight. The theme of National Library Week, which begins on Sunday, is “Communities Thrive @ Your Library.” I have no problem with that. I just wish they would thrive more quietly. When did libraries become a cacophonous combination of cafe, video store, music store, computer lab and playground?"
Thrive more quietly?
How, when we want to shout it out from the rooftops?
