A modest proposal for the Great Neck Library.
I suggest that the building and the grounds be sold. The building should garner about $1 million and the parking lot about $500,000. This would recoup some of the approximate $2 million already spent.
This would let the community off the hook for $20 million in improvement costs.
The board suggested that a temporary location be secured so the north end (Kings Point) would have a branch during renovation.
Let that location or Station become the new Main. That is a face-saving and money-saving solution.
The board does not want to spend money on the branches like any tenant would do, door openers, compliance with the ADA regulations, and so forth.
They can buy 1,000 tablets and loan them out to the members, with a deposit of course. Less space for books and only a few clerks at each of the locations.
My wife likes the feel of a real book, but even she would learn the advantage of the tablets. After all, she is a radiologist who used the desktop to read “films.”
X-ray films are now obsolete.
Norman Roland
Great Neck
