Comments on: What do you want in the Hayward library?

By: monica ruiz

monica ruiz — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:43:35 +0000

Good idea or a librarian could be stationed at that end of the library to oversee the activity.

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Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:46:52 +0000

[...] What do you want in the Hayward library? [...]

By: Matt O'Brien

Matt O'Brien — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:22:04 +0000

Thanks cwbyht. Any library staffers want to weigh in on this one?

By: cwbyht

cwbyht — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:31:00 +0000

I think you could start by posting signs limiting their use to 60 minutes. If you leave, and nobody takes the corral, you could stay for another hour. Library staff, could enforce this, the same way they limit computer time.

By: Matt O'Brien

Matt O'Brien — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:02:45 +0000

I guess I’d turn the questions back to you: How would you bust a study corral monopoly? If I want to sit in the library reading a novel from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on a rainy Saturday, do you force me to move? Do you create time limits for seats? Who monitors the limits? Etc.

By: cwbyht

cwbyht — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:45:15 +0000

Why does the staff allow the homeless to monopolize the study corrals, at the main branch? I’ve seen them race for the corrals at opening time, and stay there for the entire day. They leaves bags and clothing in them, and leave the library for long periods of time. No one else can use them..
The last straw was when I sat down in one, and was cursed at by a frighting looking individual, claiming it was his space!

By: Alex Harmon

Alex Harmon — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:03:13 +0000

I ment:

“I don’t use the coumputers in the teen/young adult area”

By: Alex Harmon

Alex Harmon — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:01:44 +0000

The library is a good place and is the ONLY place for teens to hang out around here. I’m 14 and I do not use the coumputers because it is too loud.

The library fountain shuld be turned back on and the library does have advertizments on KHRT Channel 15.

By: monica ruiz

monica ruiz — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:36:48 +0000

Library fountain on Mission Street side needs to be landscaped and operating. Where’s the water? This is embarrassing to have this fountain being ignored and neglected.

Overdue fines back to ten cents or eliminated.

Hours of operation need to be increased.

Programs need to be advertised. Most of the community doesn’t even know what’s going on at the library.