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Guest post from the Angry Librarian

Go to any public library in the country and you are likely to see banks of computers designated for internet use by the “patrons”.  These computers need to be removed from the library.

Here’s Why:

Collectively and overall, patrons who come to the library strictly for internet access are rude, loud, disrespectful of other patrons and the library in general.  They are demanding and unable to understand the simple rules for signing into a computer.  Many do not use the library for any other purpose.

These me-me-me knuckleheads will walk up to the desk while the librarian is in the middle of helping a REAL patron with a legitimate library purpose and demand to be helped with their computer problem.  Unbelievably rude.

If the internet users are not busy being rude, they are busy trying to get the librarian to help them print or logon.  In the meantime, real patrons have to wait to conduct their legitimate library business.

By far, the internet users are the worst about cell phone usage (Loud, obnoxious ringtones or loud, obnoxious cell convos), they are the worst about letting their little heathens run lap around the stacks playing cowboys and indians and they are by far the worst about trashing the joint with their candy wrappers and scraps of paper.

They gripe when all of the computers are taken or when, due to their supreme ineptitude, they only have five minutes available on the computer they signed into.  Hey idiot, the reason you only have five minutes is because that computer is reserved for someone intelligent enough to have followed the rules and make a legit reservation.

I don’t get why it is that these things need to be in the library anyway.  If they need to be in a public location, why not haul them down to City Hall or the Courthouse.  With any luck, maybe Mr. Obama will get elected to a second term so that he can implement his Ministry of Information and the internet computers can all be located in State sanctioned People’s Quonset Huts.

In the interest of fairness, I will say that there are some users of the internet services who are just the nicest, most respectful folk and I genuinely enjoy seeing them walk through the door.  How sad that these folks are such a minority.

Some folks may opine that having the internet computers at the libraries brings in patrons.  No it doesn’t.  It brings in internet computer users.  Most will not patronize the library for any other service other than checking out videos that they return weeks late.

I’ve got no issue with the downtrodden needing to have access to the internet.  These days it’s darn near a necessity to do some business online.  I just believe that these internet access computers belong somewhere other than the library.