There\’s a Little Blurb at Business Week on the troubles the dot.com bust are causing at SFPL.
\”As local unemployment has surged to 5.7%, once-quiet bookworm oases now swarm with surly surfers. Weekday demand for the main library\’s 300 computers is so high that administrators split them into \”express\” terminals, with a 15-minute limit, and 1-hour terminals–with strictly enforced waiting lists. \”It\’s like a stampede in the morning for the sign-up sheet,\” says library spokeswoman Marcia Schneider. \”Security has to hold people back.\”
There is a report of \”Web Rage\”, where one user screamed for 10 minutes at a librarian who kicked him off a terminal and then threatened to sue.
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