SFist: Hey, Where'd First Stop Go?

Elizabeth

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:30:09 -0800

Nicholson Baker is an idiot who wants all public libraries to be just like the ones he patronized as a child. He does not know shit about the business of running libraries. Would you want your dentist to use a hydraulic foot pump drill? Why saddle librarians with outdated, inefficient tools because of one man's misguided, romantic notion of what a library "should" be?

Elizabeth

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:30:01 -0800

MedusaSF

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:39:51 -0800

They had to make room for the opening of the Homeless Masturbatory Depository.

MHTH

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:29:11 -0800

Chris Carlsson has a story you might find interesting in his anthology titled Reclaiming San Francisco. The story was written by Nicholson Baker and recounts the disappearance of an incredible number of books when the new main was built. It's called "Weeds: A Talk at the Library". Highly recommended.

bluecanary

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:24:37 -0800

Um, have you thought about calling them and asking? There are other (sometimes better) ways to get information other than the internet, you know.