Privacy Compromised by Open Hold Shelves

mdoneil says:

Whiner
OK, I’ll agree putting the holds on open shelves with patron’s names on it is not the best solution. However this guy is just a whiner.

I say do away with holds and tell them it was done because a patron complained about privacy and people knowing what he was reading. I’m sure after this story the other patrons will let him know how they feel. Well, that is probably not the best idea, but what does this whiner want?

He wants everything done his way even though other people might be inconvenienced. He wants the held books to be kept secret from the other patrons in the libary. He wants to take away the convenience of getting the books from the shelf and using self-check out that apparently many other people enjoy.

The library covered the titles, but he wasn’t happy.
The library put the books in envelopes, but he decided to open other people’s envelopes to see if the library would respond. When they didn’t respond to his childish invasion of other patron’s privacy he wasn’t happy.
The library offered to put his – and anyone else who requested it- behind the desk but that didn’t make him happy.

In 5 minutes online using no fee based services I found his website, his address and phone number, the serveral trusts in which he is the grantee or grantor recorded in Arlington County courthouse, satellite photos of his address and pictures of his dog. Oddly I cannot find a Maryland (it is mentioned that he practices in MD) or Virginia Psychologist license, but I only used free services. (I could use lexis-nexis but that would be too easy.)

So perhaps he should stop whining. Does he hide his library books when he walks out of the library?

He is so concerned about what could happen …

[H]he said he won’t be happy until he knows no one can rifle through them and figure out what he reads.
Has he ever seen anyone do that?
“No,” he said. “But it can be done. And that’s what bothers me.

I assume nobody has given him a good swift kick in the stones, and I bet he gets that before anyone worries about what he is reading.