Database Logics

Thats the new phrase in London. Margaret Hodge has apparently told public libraries that they are not doing a good enough job marketing their services and should be adding new and "innovative" things like coffee shops and vouchers for free airline trips. There is no other position in the world that requires as much innovation as the public library. They are constantly being forced to find new ways to do things because "important" people like Margaret Hodge threaten that if they don't keep up then they will die out. Yet every year budgets are cut, employees are demoted, branches are closed. How do you expect a library to be innovative and current when the very people that spout "innovation" swing the budget axe every year. Hey I got a great idea why don't we run a commercial on every computer before a patron uses it. We can have adds all over the library promoting all the business in town and while were at it why don't we sell crappy stuffed bears holding hearts. Oh thats right because they are libraries not the corner bookstore.

Read about it here: Public libraries told to innovate or die out