A public library that keeps the public out: Somerville closing central library for hours each weekday after bad behavior - The Boston Globe
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The move came after a year in which staff complained about rampant misbehavior among rowdy teenagers at the library, officials said.

Seems to me that there might have been a better way to handle this.

  • revelrous@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    In general librarians are looking out for their communities the best they can with the meager resources provided. Libraries barely get funding to keep in books, much less security guards and lawyers. Who would enforce the age gating? Maybe it’s an acab type of town, and closing the library for a spell is safer than calling the police. From the article they planned to put cameras in the library, which would help find-out come home to it’s fuck-around.