Young people have been issued with orders banning them from libraries across East Yorkshire after extreme behaviour.Talking too loud? Creasing the pages?
Well, no:
The youngest was a nine-year-old girl, who was banned from Bridlington and Bridlington North Library for a month after disrupting other library users, hitting other children and refusing to leave by lying on the floor.*gulp*
A 14-year-old boy was banned from the Pavilion Leisure Centre in Withernsea for a week after exposing himself to children and another boy of the same age was banned from Goole Leisure Centre for theft.*boggle*
In Hull, Fred Moore Library has seen ten bans – making it the worst in the city for bad behaviour.Ahhh, hully-gullys....
8 comments:
The libraries clearly need more lefty literature, explaining to the kidz it isn't all their fault. They is all victimz. So fill the bookshelves with more tomes of Marxism and watch those numbers fall.
The inevitable reflection of behaviour fostered in many single-parent homes and tolerated in the classroom.
And so they should be banned, until they learn to behave themselves .. which in reality will mean a lifetime ban ..
Though I have to say, the worst culprits for causing disturbance in my local library are the female staff ..
Who congregate like a flock of noisy starlings behind the counter, loudly discussing and disecting the various crap which they watched on TV the previous evening ..
It wouldn't be the first time they've received a pointed "Ssshhh" & been treated to the "Fuck Off" face .. ;)
The last (and it probably will be the last) time I visited my local library it was overrun with mothers and their kids fresh out of the adjacent school. The racket was indescribable, and although several mutterings were aired, the staff didn't appear willing to do anything about it. I read in the paper last week that some new mother and child groups were being held there. FFS! If they want to do that use a bloody school or other public building. Libraries are supposed to be places where the rest of us can go do some reading or research...
When I were a nipper, I was down the library weekly. I devoured books. It was a pretty good library. But if it didn't have a book, it didn't have it. My general assumption today is that the information available in any given library is a proper subset of the information available to me on the Internet. The assumption may be violated for the large research libraries, but one typically needs to be a member of a university faculty to have access there anyway, and in particular to use the inter-library loan facility, so this is only a corner case. Municipal libraries are fast becoming a quaint anachronism.
@David Gillies
". . .a quaint anachronism" is IMHO a major understatement. My local one is just a dumping ground for kids while the parents shop.
A the Captain says, much noise in generated by the female - always female - desk staff chattering away to fill in the days before they get that lovely pension.
A large town or city might justify a single large centrally located library. Otherwise they are leftover from the days of Titus Salt.
Get rid.
Paul
"The inevitable reflection of behaviour fostered in many single-parent homes and tolerated in the classroom."
True enough. Yesterday's 'Mail' made quite horrific reading..
"The last (and it probably will be the last) time I visited my local library it was overrun with mothers and their kids fresh out of the adjacent school."
Ahhh, yes. Labour's transformation of the library into a 'community resource'. God, I loathe them so very very much...
"But if it didn't have a book, it didn't have it."
Did your local not have the reserve system, whereby if another in the borough had the book, they'd send it to yours? It was slow, mind you...
"A large town or city might justify a single large centrally located library. Otherwise they are leftover from the days of Titus Salt."
I'd be sad to see them go.
As you might have guessed from my choice of theme for this teat's monthly posts, I have very many fond memories of my tiny local library.
"Did your local not have the reserve system, whereby if another in the borough had the book, they'd send it to yours?"
I grew up in the IOW. If Ryde library didn't have it then it would have had to come from the mainland. And there was the besetting problem of all libraries: that if it didn't have a book, there was no way to serendipitously stumble upon it like there is on the Internet.
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