Letters: Richland library no longer serving public

Library no longer serving public

It’s bad enough that the Richland County Public Library is moving out books to make way for public meeting rooms. But even beyond that, I think it has lost its way.

Scrapping the old, accepted way of filing books (the Dewey Decimal Classification system) is just stupid. It worked perfectly well, and now I cannot find books. A library staff member helping me also had trouble finding material, and agreed with my assessment.

Access to electronic books is very difficult, even for those who are semi-savvy with computers. In an electronic library (Hoopla, for example), searching by subject or key words is almost impossible. Also, once while I was reading a book in Hoopla, the book and Hoopla just disappeared from the screen.

We taxpayers deserve better.