Yesterday we mentioned that it’s National Library Week, a time to celebrate all things bibliotheca. But author Sung J. Woo is using the week in a more somber way, to mourn the loss of silence at local libraries.
Woo states that he has no problem with the NLW‘s theme, “Communities Thrive @ Your Library,” he only wishes the thriving could be a little quieter. “Twenty years ago, I was able to research my high school term papers in silence, but now the communal desks have been transformed into an open forum for children and adults to chat away as if they were hanging out at Starbucks.”
Read Woo’s lament for “The Lost ‘Library Voice.’”
