Taltarzac725
03-01-2014, 09:21 AM
I just wanted to give a brief shout out to the staff at the Lady Lake Public Library. I use this library maybe once a week and have been doing this maybe five years or so. I have not really been counting the years. I live in Sumter County and I have to pay the $40 non-Lake County Resident fee. Marion County people do not have to pay as far as I know because of a reciprocal agreement for borrowers. http://www.lakeline.lib.fl.us/frequently_asked_questions.aspx#countycard
As some may know, I have bugged the Lake County Library system staff once in a while about a common sense link to the Florida Victim Services Directory Victim Services Directory (http://myfloridalegal.com/directory) with the adage that it should be kept as elegant as possible. That is to say, the quickest approach to it should be sought. KISS should apply often-- Keep It Simple Stupid. I do not usually use those words but sure have heard them a lot in response to my own massive writings over the Internet.
I have been doing this kind of persuasion using the Internet since 2000 or so when I was writing a bunch of FL Victim Service Resources and received a response from a Ft. Myers Rape Crisis Center that they would like to see the Florida Victim Services Directory (paper form) in various libraries. I discovered that there was an electronic version of this and soon was writing many public and law libraries all over Florida trying to get them to put in a link. Victim Services Directory (http://myfloridalegal.com/directory)
I have found the people at the Lady Lake Public Library http://www.lakeline.lib.fl.us/libraries/detail.aspx?id=4 always very friendly and professional despite whatever problems, if any, my activism may have caused them. I rarely use the Sumter County Library System but have found the new library people near Brownswood also happy to see me.
If you are aware of a library which does not have a link to something like the Florida Victim Services Directory in your own community I hope that you will ask them why not? It seems that the Sheriffs' Offices should also have such a link as it sends out the message that the needs of the victims/survivors of crimes are very important.
As some may know, I have bugged the Lake County Library system staff once in a while about a common sense link to the Florida Victim Services Directory Victim Services Directory (http://myfloridalegal.com/directory) with the adage that it should be kept as elegant as possible. That is to say, the quickest approach to it should be sought. KISS should apply often-- Keep It Simple Stupid. I do not usually use those words but sure have heard them a lot in response to my own massive writings over the Internet.
I have been doing this kind of persuasion using the Internet since 2000 or so when I was writing a bunch of FL Victim Service Resources and received a response from a Ft. Myers Rape Crisis Center that they would like to see the Florida Victim Services Directory (paper form) in various libraries. I discovered that there was an electronic version of this and soon was writing many public and law libraries all over Florida trying to get them to put in a link. Victim Services Directory (http://myfloridalegal.com/directory)
I have found the people at the Lady Lake Public Library http://www.lakeline.lib.fl.us/libraries/detail.aspx?id=4 always very friendly and professional despite whatever problems, if any, my activism may have caused them. I rarely use the Sumter County Library System but have found the new library people near Brownswood also happy to see me.
If you are aware of a library which does not have a link to something like the Florida Victim Services Directory in your own community I hope that you will ask them why not? It seems that the Sheriffs' Offices should also have such a link as it sends out the message that the needs of the victims/survivors of crimes are very important.