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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another issue is that many are sexual predators. I remember when I was a teen, I had a homeless man try to grope me in the library and then a different man kept exposing himself to me and my 2 friends when we were working on a group project. Even now when i take my toddler to classes, there are creepers who watch the kids. These men have no children.

I don't like libraries providing internet at all. I think people take advantage of it and I think libraries should stick to books and research. If they want to keep providing computers and internet, they should request a library card number before allowing you on the computer. That way, the browser history could be more tracked too. [/quote]

+1. Get rid of the computers which would solve half of the problem. If they need to use the computer for personal stuff (or looking up drugs and porn as I have witnessed at my local library) let them do that at the homeless shelter and not around kids. [/quote]

Yeah, great idea. So then the kids with no computers at home couldn't do research on the computer. So then the unemployed person couldn't apply for jobs online, as is often the only way to do so.  All so that the homeless person can't watch porn.

Please. This is a solution of fighting fire with napalm.  Like PP said, you need a library card to login to the internet (which, of course, are fully available to everyone, and should be). At my library (inner city in a major US metro area), the computers are all in a very public place, some are reserved for children and teens, all have time limits.  I've never seen anyone watching porn. And how do you "look up drugs?" [/quote]

You look up how to grow drugs and how to make them in your kitchen. I've personally seen "patrons" looking up both scenarios. As for the poor kids who need to do research, this is laughable. I have a library walking distance from my house and in the six years I have been going there I have never seen the kids on computers working on anything remotely educational. They play video games all afternoon and the librarians act as babysitters. There are no time limits. The problem I see is that the libraries are getting stuck filling the space of rec center, homeless shelter, babysitter, job center, etc. [/quote]

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