*facepalm*
Dear Mr. Xinos,
Aside from the turpitude of making little girls cry when they try to get involved in their community, I'd like you to know that I don't think you have a shinning future in law. Not only do you not know how relate to a jury, not only is your name now tarnished forever, but you very obviously have not done your research. I would say 'allow me to poke holes in your argument', but, I think you'll find that when you take the facts into consideration, all you'll be left with is one giant hole.
1) Librarians are not paid $100,000 a year to wipe tables and put away books.
First of all, wiping tables and putting away books is basically the job description of the entry level position. It's the job I had as a sixteen-year-old, working part-time nine hours a week after school. If I was getting paid even half that much, I'd have far less to worry about financially speaking.
What librarians do: run programs for 50+ kids, book/design said programs, order new books, weed through old books, get the youtube generation excited about reading, help with schoolwork, help with research projects, help with your taxes, help with navigating the internet... the list goes on and on.
2) Being a librarian is not a hobby.
Librarians need degrees. If you are getting paid $100,000 a year, chances are you have a Ph. D., and a running at least a department, if not the whole shebang. If you're a normal full-time librarian, you likely have a Masters and/or are working on it. Part-timers and newer librarians have Bachelors.
Librarians have a job, which, on even good days, is filled with hyperactive children and/or slight befuddled adults who have trouble identifying things which are clearly marked. Perhaps you thought their days were full of sitting at a desk reading Micheal Moore books and further thinking of ways to expand government influences?
Or maybe you're referring to the unofficial part of a librarians job description: making sure that impolitic books are still read? Mainstream publishing houses have this thing where they can 'kill' your book by postponing its release or cutting any promotion. The librarians have enough sway over the publishing houses (because, as stated before, they have control over what books are ordered) to get them to reverse a decision.
Newsflash: that's not a hobby either.
3) Libraries are not little, private, personal wants.
Libraries are centers of community. Tell me one other place that offers resources for immigrants to learn English, for drop-outs to study for their GEDs, for little girls to research about the type of dog they want to talk their parents into buying, for teenagers to learn to drive, for citizens to do their taxes, for women to learn self-defense, for senior citizens to play bridge, for boys to play Guitar Hero, for parents to drop their kids off for a few hours, for people who have no internet in their homes, for quilters, for students, for aspiring writers, for almost anyone you could name. And does it for free.
Yeah. That's what I thought.
-Hanuu Eshe
Senior Page, Sayville Public Library
(If you feel up to it, here's how you can lodge a complaint.)