Do not tell this gloriously angry librarian that libraries don't matter
New York Observer columnist Andre Walker, who learned to read on his own dollar thank-you-very-much, has no use for public libraries. Understandably suspicious of a long-standing service whose funding over the last few decades has very likely been taken over by crypto-Soviet sleeper cells, Walker tweeted a very smart take on libraries recently. He probably researched it using books from schools.
His sentiment, which reads as very obviously short-sighted and bad to anyone who understands the purpose of public libraries, didn’t go unchallenged for long, however. Smelling blood in the microblogging waters, Twitter’s “TheAngriestLibrarian” fulfilled the promise of his name.
The righteous fury continues with TheAngriestLibrarian detailing the many, many uses of the modern library. He mentions that, more than rooms filled with free books, libraries also provide “educational and recreational material” for local communities, offer internet access to those without, and create ideal spaces for LGBT teenagers to learn more about themselves or immigrants to study English.