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[quote="exactly"][quote="Guest"][quote]The news, however, leaves me wondering why the community did not rally much more enthusiastically around such an issue. [/quote] Maybe because the community feels that the library that exists is already appropriate for the community.[/quote] Exactly. I like the current library setup.[/quote]
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<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="forumline"> <tr> <th class="thCornerL" width="22%" height="26">Author</th> <th class="thCornerR">Message</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue, Nov 10 2009, 2:53 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: LETTERS: Make Cranbury Library a priority</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">The Cranbury Public Library Board meetings are public. I think there is one this Thursday.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>GK</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue, Nov 10 2009, 11:04 am EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: LETTERS: Make Cranbury Library a priority</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">As much as I'd like to see a new, freestanding library in town, I worry about its cost. Even if a new library were mostly paid for by private financing, the town's operating costs would almost certainly escalate in a new facility. After all, a larger facility means more books and media, more equipment, more staff, etc. <br /> <br />One thing that I have not seen mentioned much in this discussion is reciprocity of privileges in other area libraries. For instance, Cranbury residents have full borrowing rights (books, media, etc.) in the Monroe Township library. For those who may not be aware, Monroe's library recently underwent a significant expansion. It's a beautiful facility (with a wholly separate kids section), has a strong collection of resources, and it's only about 10 minutes from Main Street. Don't get me wrong, I'm jealous that Cranbury doesn't have a library of that stature, but I am not jealous of the debt Monroe accrued to build and expand it. <br /> <br />It probably behooves us to also look at the services offered by our own library. In the age of the web, Netflix and the Kindle, the role of a library is different, certainly, than it was even 20 years ago. Book borrowing is perhaps not its most essential service. Thus, before we demand a new library, perhaps it would be a more fruitful exercise to set forth the requirements of what we as a town would like from our library. We could then compare those findings to what is offered by our current facility, and then determine -- as a community -- how to evolve our library to meet those needs. While such an exercise may or may not lead to a new building, I am certain it would lead to a library experience that more of us would be satisfied with.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>LoveFunny</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun, Nov 8 2009, 10:13 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: LETTERS: Make Cranbury Library a priority</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>GrumpyOldLibraryMan wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"> Depend on when your kids were in pre-school. Prior to '97 library didn't open until the afternoon when school in session.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I think the Cranbury kids are far noisier now then back in '97. I blame the yuppie parents who no longer care about teaching good manners anymore. <br /> <br />I also blame hearing aids that are built better now, then in 97 that is why "senior citizens are not comfortably able to use the library during the day." If only the Cranbury Library would stop with the Guitar Hero competitions and Karaoke playing voodo Rock and Roll music, that would help. <br /> <br />And despite all the advancements made by NJ pharmaceutical companies of late (i.e. Cialis/Viagra) the Cranbury sr. citizen is far more grumpier then in the past. We just can not read our scrolls and keep to ourselves, because we dont know how to speak to them. Why the hell do the cranbury kids keep wanting to twitter me, I'm no twitt, that's why I want my own Library in Cranbury, and will write new articles in the CranburyPress and get out the vote to build one. There is simply nothing that those kids can teach me, and I certainly dont want to interact with any of them either.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />LOL - too funny - Message received.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun, Nov 8 2009, 8:49 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: LETTERS: Make Cranbury Library a priority</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Wow - you really are a grumpy old man!</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>GrumpyOldLibraryMan</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun, Nov 8 2009, 1:55 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: LETTERS: Make Cranbury Library a priority</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"> Depend on when your kids were in pre-school. Prior to '97 library didn't open until the afternoon when school in session.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I think the Cranbury kids are far noisier now then back in '97. I blame the yuppie parents who no longer care about teaching good manners anymore. <br /> <br />I also blame hearing aids that are built better now, then in 97 that is why "senior citizens are not comfortably able to use the library during the day." If only the Cranbury Library would stop with the Guitar Hero competitions and Karaoke playing voodo Rock and Roll music, that would help. <br /> <br />And despite all the advancements made by NJ pharmaceutical companies of late (i.e. Cialis/Viagra) the Cranbury sr. citizen is far more grumpier then in the past. We just can not read our scrolls and keep to ourselves, because we dont know how to speak to them. Why the hell do the cranbury kids keep wanting to twitter me, I'm no twitt, that's why I want my own Library in Cranbury, and will write new articles in the CranburyPress and get out the vote to build one. There is simply nothing that those kids can teach me, and I certainly dont want to interact with any of them either.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun, Nov 8 2009, 1:35 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: LETTERS: Make Cranbury Library a priority</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">The publc library used to open at noon...school was in session. <br />And the town used to be smaller than it is now...and the school was smaller.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun, Nov 8 2009, 8:34 am EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: LETTERS: Make Cranbury Library a priority</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">So the library used to have more limited hours.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat, Nov 7 2009, 5:09 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: LETTERS: Make Cranbury Library a priority</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">When your children were pre-schooler, we did not have the separated space during the school day. At that time, you were free to go into the children's area. That is often not the case now.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Depend on when your kids were in pre-school. Prior to '97 library didn't open until the afternoon when school in session.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat, Nov 7 2009, 4:37 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: LETTERS: Make Cranbury Library a priority</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Quote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">I have heard that Sweetwater Construction will buy the PNC bank by year's end. They are currently out on Prospect Plains Road but have to move because of the turnpike's expansion. Someone said that they have about seventy-five employees.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />How many parking spots are there in the current lot? I would imagine that they might need the every parking space...</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat, Nov 7 2009, 4:24 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: LETTERS: Make Cranbury Library a priority</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">When your children were pre-schooler, we did not have the separated space during the school day. At that time, you were free to go into the children's area. That is often not the case now.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat, Nov 7 2009, 1:51 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: LETTERS: Make Cranbury Library a priority</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Quote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Families with pre-school children find it hard to visit during the day time hours due to the restrictions in space.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />When my children were in pre-school, we used the library all the time and did not find it "hard to visit."</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat, Nov 7 2009, 1:50 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: LETTERS: Make Cranbury Library a priority</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Quote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Just curious... do the "guests" on this forum who like the public library just the way it is have children in Cranbury School?</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />yes</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Library User</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat, Nov 7 2009, 1:24 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: LETTERS: Make Cranbury Library a priority</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">The library receives over $600,000 annually from tax payers. <br /> <br />We are expected to spend even more tax dollars for a new building? <br /> <br />Is $600,000 a year not enough?</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat, Nov 7 2009, 11:20 am EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: LETTERS: Make Cranbury Library a priority</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">I think everyone appreciates that a dedicated public library could serve the community in a variety of ways. The issue is whether that is economically justifiable in a community with less than 2,000 tax paying households. As it stands, the Township has cleverly saved the Township money by requiring both the public library and school library to compromise to share facilities and save costs. <br /> <br />Personally I support the effort to raise private donations for the stand alone library. If there is enough community interest in it, they should be able to fund the acquisition and/or construction this way. If there is not enough support for it through charity, then forcing the full burden on a very small group of taxpayers was not fair to begin with. Once they do the existing state rules on minimum tax funding for the library should cover the operating costs (which is why they have a large surplus right now).</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat, Nov 7 2009, 11:02 am EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: LETTERS: Make Cranbury Library a priority</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">We could use a public library that serves all members of our community, not just the families with children in the elementary school. As the other poster mentioned, seniors are not comfortable able to use the library during the day. Moms and dads with babies who are home during the day find the current library rather unwelcoming and overrun with elementary age children...there is no room for them. Homeschoolers would not find the noisy library great for them. Working adults or employees of local business that pay a lot of our tax dollars supporting the school and the library who visit on breaks, lunch hours or on a day home rather noisy and not conducive to their needs.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat, Nov 7 2009, 10:52 am EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: LETTERS: Make Cranbury Library a priority</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Whenever I used to explain to friends, relatives and colleague about why I chose to live in Cranbury I would describe how I liked that it was such a small community with charm and where so many people knew each other. But I also used to describe how “smart” the Township was by sharing services with other Townships and the high school with Princeton, etc. And I always mentioned the library as an example of how clever and appropriate it was for a Township with less than 4,000 people to have a multi-purpose library shared with the school. Why does a tiny community need a stand-alone library?</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> </table>
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