i was really impressed actually and you know because the fact that we're wearing our libraries rock which let's remind everybody will be wearing them and i already am sporting this summer do you know where you pull your hair back and  from where my sister lived and i've been to this library and i just so when i saw this article was in the huffington post that came out i believe just  this this one i've had for a while but i was able to follow up and find out what happened this actually came out mid december and i was looking into it in january the article by david co headline is private equity firm acquires readers italian ice now i california public library now i had this sitting down here and you looked at it and you thought what i thought was the lever is going to get a read isn't it i would private equity firm added the frozen dessert chain redus to its fourth folio event investment this is funny which also includes here some of their other investments present phone company and a handful of pizza hut library so their goal is that they're going to come in they're going to buy that library so it will no longer be a public you know owned by the public it's going to be owned by this private company country's largest library management company the private they say that you know getting these buying up the libraries and making them private trades tax buyer tax payers money by bringing  optimization and efficiency that is used to gobble up eighty three libraries across the country so this goes through and by all of these and runs it like a business so you would think that you know not sure if that would be good or bad because they're going to come in you know they'll be a fee to use them like it was like oh you know like the library card of the things that they're concerned abroad there was a concern that private equity has no business providing such a crucial public good as a library investors aren't focused on the common good they're focused on ringing profits out of their investments they're bound to cut corners take on debt pocket critical funds needed for turned it down ok they worked they were trapped while they were looking into it at first they were going oh yeah let's look into this well long story short it was turned down and they are no they're not they were not bought up it to be private they talk about here the private company in maryland has another has taken over public libraries in a ruling cities in california oregon texas tennessee  but what they're talking about are libraries that aren't doing well you know and almost by kind of buying up like small companies that aren't doing well fixing them up i used to watch a t v show called the cable called the profit where he'd go in and put money into these little you know companies and help them get established and everything and get them on their way it sounds like that they're kind of doing that but if you own the library i don't think i mean it's not like they're selling like oh miss shannon you now own your own library because you're going to buy the library from them you know like a small thing but when i was looking through all of this found some different things that but the good news the nice things that i found by researching this that make it bring home the fact of how important a public library is to a community and this woman says a library is the heart of the community i'm in favor of private enterprise as such as i am but i can't feel comfortable you know with what the city what cities are doing by by you know selling it off another may mrs hanson this eighty one year old said she's been a library patron for nearly fifty years she was so bothered by it that she became eighty one involved in local politics for the first time since one nine hundred sixty nine when she was involved in politics about the vietnam war and she drew up petitions got all these signatures said that it would stop them from doing that to that specific library but the one more thing is i like this that came up now this was even done earlier one of the guys that is instrumental in helping this company buy appt libraries i don't know like i would take it as almost a sarcastic kind of thought are just kind of not very nice thought that he put out there about libraries because he just dismissed it as you know this american flag this apple pie thing that we're just we are untouchable and you know we shouldn't be messing with libraries will who are we you know that they can't get in there and do what they do so that that were sacred so this woman wrote back and i love this i'll end up with with these really interesting comments the library isn't a sacred organization but in many communities it's the only place the least fortunate have to go to be put in touch with resources they desperately need as more and more government services are moved exclusively on line especially things like filing for unemployment and employers beginning accepting applications online only it's even more important that public libraries are often are able to offer free computer and internet access to those who can't get online anywhere else remember that and at the time of this writing in this was earlier that sixty seven percent of public libraries are the only place in the community that offer free computer and internet access that ninety percent of public libraries also offer technology training libraries are also where parents can take their children for storytime said improve their literacy skills yes where parents can borrow d v d s for free where people can attend classes that teach them new skills or help them develop their hobbies where anyone can get book recommendations and have their questions answered where works of fiction and nonfiction representing what humanity has created a discovered are kept where resources are shared none of this is done i love this none of this is done because it turns up profit and in fact the people who most need not libraries are the ones who are least able to afford the services south where i and i know that we are fortunate in our community to not have like maybe an economic kind of issue  our population for the most part but there are there are communities that to have that right and we hate to see that go by the wayside this is public this is and no matter what community you live in i feel like this is just use of access to live yeah this is just what america's about a free library and hopefully more and also stay for the most part that way i don't want somebody buying our library you know i'll be like next thing you know that i am i going to put every does inside the library which i was all about well if a company buys it maybe they will or the all the side will go into the lobby like you go into some of that like wal mart or whatever and you walk into the lobby and they'll be a mcdonald's over here making making money and then you go excuse me i'll grab my diet coke while i'm heading back to the graphic novel so that's  we're offering a special sensory story time for children and families and focusing on you know people that maybe would need some kind of like i don't know how to phrase it the best way people that need a special type of programming that offers the stimuli messed yeah less stimuli stimulating the new lighting stimulating for the children there are children that it becomes like they can't take the time overstimulation right so our newest to our library stuff specially not least in our department is our midst sidney who is actually a certified special ed educator and so she is going to be running this program for us so we do feel very confident in the quality of it because she has a lot of great experience working with but especially population so she's going to be offering that one sorry a month it's always going to be a believe that worked out be the third sorry the month the first one being on june sixteenth at ten o'clock so it's for all ages and families to do acid you sign up for it please just so we can get an idea of how many to expect and how much extra additional assistance you might need for that  us she came on board to turn me off and be in the young one between her and caroline the old lady has been married and everything and has kids and stuff on that person now well yeah you have nothing yeah that the in from it goes down like this is a piano somewhere and i'm holding my breath listening exactly two weeks ago may third one nine hundred seventy four i was playing happy birthday to my grandmother on our rickety living room piano by then she didn't remember much but she sang all the words to that song and while i was trying to act like it was fine and dandy that my uncle was driving me away dragging me away granddaddy was bawling his eyes out that was the last time i touched a piano key they said this little boy his grandparents farm was sold the piano went where ever the furniture ended up and me c previous previously destined to be a famous musician or maybe a big leaguer i packed my entire life in a suitcase in a knapsack and pretended like the uncle i'd never laid eyes on wasn't swearing that we'd never set foot in kentucky again so and it goes on this is about his life he lived with his grandparents the grandmother dies the uncle pulls him out of there you know he moves out of state and the only thing that he remembers that made him happy was playing the piano and where he goes there wasn't a piano and so i know until where they live he hears the piano and finds and finds it and i'm really not going to be a do a spoiler alert about it but it was a little good read it's a really good read yeah and especially you and i with it again with the news ik and that actually looks kind of like my  piano the way to stay in destiny we are meeting june eighteenth that's a monday at six pm i thought you know what after everybody is tired at the swimming pool go home you know have a bite to eat or i'll have snacks or as well i do like ice cream or freeze pops something really summery fun and and we'll discuss the way to stay and destiny looks like a good one yet is well i feel like we can't stop saying this dude's name doing all kinds of hamilton stuff throughout the spring and now going into the summer to kind of get as excited for that we had our big team hamilton's event in april and now coming up in june on the twenty first we're having him wilson's america people's love of the american history and really getting that history out there to all different audiences i know i personally want everybody so we're going to be showing that because of our partnership with evening about six thirty to watch what it's america yeah that sounds good you know what even from hamilton move play coming out and the music and everything i've learned a lot and you everybody is reading it yeah i keep hearing oh i'm reading that and now i just started the sequel in my car so how did we get the cd and good because i went to i love listening to them in my car too and then having the book at home and i'm reading it in between and when i'm in my about this before and i'll just say it again is that we have so so many adults to come in and want to read the young adult literature and at first i don't know because it seemed to be becoming more and more popular to do that because at first you know you'd see somebody come in and well these books and i am reading and i am going to read this almost like i'm ashamed that i'm reading that don't be ashamed oh my gosh there's some good stuff out there i read them you there are some great young adult novels to read there's a you're reading right and you know i think books like the hunger games are really brought up ended up that's true very true like everybody read the hunger games and even twilight a lot of all ages read twilight and yeah those really big series that really kind of gave a new idea to why i am what's true so yeah i love i don't think i'm going to grow out of y you know and i like it so i like it  this airs this is going to be up in the lobby we've heard a lot more you are going up there and it is going to be so big and so lively they're going to get it up this week but here is my guitar and the guitar to haters about two boys their own band together they go to some special band camp because they're apparently really good instrumentalists and they're best friends and their common thing is that they like to hate on everything so they'll just like kind of like figuring out ways to hate on it too so these two boys they meet a girl one girl who voice meets girl it's ok and the three of them run away they leave bangham they run away and they decide that now is their chance they're going to go on tour be at band camp at the special band camp traveling the country and playing music so of course there's a little bit of a love triangle going on with the two boys and one girl and it's his writing is downright hilarious he kind i'm going to read i fought this was so cool like i know why i'm intrigued with like this witness protection called greetings from the witness protection program but it starts with one of these hats by jake burke and marshals are looking for the perfect girl to join a mother father and son on the run from the nation's most notorious criminals after all the bad guys are searching for a family with one kid not two and adding a streetwise girl who knows a little something about hiding things may be just what the marshals can you matt i just just find it fascinating and this is written you know probably like a fifth fourth fifth grade level and i just think it would be were interesting how that it's all controlled because this girl that joins the family oh sorry she even had to you know maintain a specific grade and everything else was just crazy and where they go and that would be fun yeah it says it's thrilling readers will be on the edge theirs it's nice to bring in spanking new one it is i'm looking forward to reading it we just got it just had a catalog so i haven't had a chance to read it but when i was looking through it i thought oh the head looks so interesting and a fun summer read for sure i think for a most stunning yes are we yeah oh may i come see us the library this summer we're going to be a rocket and or something we will be rocking that will be sporting really cool right i'm starting a trend you know