Tue
Nov 3 2009
08:05 pm
By: StaceyDiamond
For years I remember a public News Sentinel being available with a wood stick in it at the downtown library. I did not realize they had stopped that as I almost always buy a paper. They still do have that at the North Knoxville library. Today I asked for the Sentinel and had to go up two flights of stairs in a tiny monitored room and have a librarian get it for me. I was testy with her, read a bit and left carrying a free pamphlet I had picked up downstairs and was asked if I had taken part of the paper!! I felt like I was in a prison library. A friend who went by the UT library for research and was only allowed to use a stand up computer felt the same way.
It gives me a complex sometimes if you are a pedestrian or library user you can be profiled as homeless, particularly if you question the situation. I feel like saying and I am sure others do as well, I have a college education, a home and I'm pissed!! I can see some of this, but requiring two flights of stairs and a teeny room and monitor to read a paper seems over the top!
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you're right, the newspapers
you're right, the newspapers should be available in the main reading room, near the periodicals.
How odd. Pilot gives away
How odd. Pilot gives away the KNS free on Fridays but you have to go to a secure room in the library to read the paper?
I'm not tracking with you.
I'm not tracking with you. What does this have to do with being homeless?
"It gives me a complex sometimes if you are a pedestrian or library user you can be profiled as homeless, particularly if you question the situation."
Isn't everyone who goes into the library and makes use of it by defnition a "library user?" Unless the library has a drive-through window, don't you pretty much have to be a pedestrian to get inside? Does having a college education and a home make you pissed?
homeless
The libraries at UT and downtown used to be more free places until the influx of homeless using the internet 5 years or so ago. They (the homeless) can be a problem and just as much so the libraries reaction to them. If I was going to try and steal a paper I'd at least try for the NY Times. If they are that weird over papers they should not have them.
Seems like newspaper
Seems like newspaper thievery is the apparent problem, not so much the homeless themselves. Did you ask and were you told why it was that you were required to go to a different place to read the newspaper? It seems a bit unfair to condemn a whole class of people for something when it's probably a select few who nabbed the newspapers.
If you were poor and/or homeless would you want to be derided as an "influx" for using a publicly available resource?
Classifieds
Since the homeless might be looking for jobs or apartments, it seems like a good investment of public funds to have newspapers readily available.
Maybe the NS can be persuaded to donate unsold papers from the day before?
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Pilot gives away free papers
Pilot gives away free papers every Friday. The KNS couldn't drop off a bundle at the homeless centers? How much could it possibly cost? All we hear from the KNS is moving the county forward. Why don't they actually do something?
you're absolutely right.
you're absolutely right. wonder whether pilot buys the papers, or the arrangement is part of the "deal"...
another possibility is for
another possibility is for friends of the library to donate their KNS copies.
papers
I was directed up to a tiny room and then had to ask for what paper and it was gotten from the back. I have never experienced this before. From working at papers I know there are always tons thrown out that could be given to all kinds of stuff. BTW, this is not about class, the Haslams or the Candy Factory, or Scripps. Its about draconian measures at libraries that seem to be about the homeless.
Seems?
"Its about draconian measures at libraries that seem to be about the homeless."
That reads like you're assuming something, but didn't actually ask. Did you ask a librarian why the newspaper was in a different place?
At the Fountain City Library
At the Fountain City Library you leave either your library card or driver license with the desk and then when you finish with the newspaper you get it return to you. There is an apology posted saying something like dishonest people make it hard on everybody.
ain't worth it
From now on if I want to hold a paper in my hands it either 75 cents or free one at Pilot on Fri's. People may have started stealing because they stopped putting the paper in wood sticks, which is still better than turning over a license for a 75 cent paper.