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| - This library looks like it was designed by someone who also made East German gymnasium dormitories. And whatever ass-hat designed the parking should be made to drive it, in its' jagged eccentricity, for a week straight. This library feels as if someone had taken the Centennial library, gutted the building, and plopped the same floor plan in. Also, like the aforementioned library, it had an outward symmetry, but interior lop-sideness, that feels uneven and wasteful.
Then I learn that the wing to the East (the huge side, the darker one), houses all the higher muckity-mucks who are the plotters, planners, and administrators of the Clark County Library District. Change the order of the letters and you get PAP. Go figure. It must be that all the 100K salary people needed to be in a bare Bauhausian structure to reflect the administrative creativity that is so deserving of such an outrageous salary They get the lion's share. Of the building. And funding. And yes, lots of them pull in over $100K, look it up. Public servants, my ass. More like a free-wheeling slot handle. And like tenured professors- they never seem to retire and make room for anyone else. I would guess it's a nice gig if you can get it.
So, what do I like about this library? Glad you asked. I like how much room is cordoned off for the children's section. New library = bigger money spent on YPL and younger kids. And that's a good thing. The space inside, though regulated like the interior of a scholastic pencil case, does offer lots of natural light and windows. Another big plus. If you have kids, GO. If you hate poorly designed public building- Don't go.
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