{"id":20870,"date":"2016-08-19T14:07:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T18:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=20870"},"modified":"2016-08-19T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T18:08:11","slug":"letter-libray-board-lacks-skills-to-build-new-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=20870","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Library board lacks skills to build new library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>To The Editor<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1511\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Letters1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Letters1\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\" \/>Here we go again. After over two decades of announcing the need for a new\u00a0library facility, the current library board and earlier library boards have<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>failed<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>to provide a new facility.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Instead<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>the current board<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>is<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>forming another<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>new committee<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>to conduct additional study. THE PUBLIC DOES NOT NEED ANOTHER STUDY. THE PUBLIC NEEDS A NEW, MODERN LIBRARY! LOCATED IN THE BOROUGH!!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">How much longer will the community have to wait for the library facility? Will the community still be awaiting this facility after three decades? In the time since the BTML Board announced the need for a new facility, Oxford, West Grove, West Chester, and the Hockessin, DE, libraries have all completed significant expansions to their facilities. Library Boards in Kennett Square lack the skills to <span class=\"s2\"><b>provide<\/b><\/span><b> <\/b><span class=\"s2\"><b>a<\/b><\/span><b> <\/b><span class=\"s2\"><b>new<\/b><\/span><b> <\/b><span class=\"s2\"><b>library.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p11\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Bruce <span class=\"s4\">B. <\/span>Yelton <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p11\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Pocopson<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Editor, Here we go again. After over two decades of announcing the need for a new\u00a0library facility, the current library board and earlier library boards have\u00a0 failed\u00a0 to provide a new facility.\u00a0Instead\u00a0the current board\u00a0is\u00a0 forming another\u00a0 new committee\u00a0 to conduct additional study. THE PUBLIC DOES NOT NEED ANOTHER STUDY. THE PUBLIC NEEDS A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16,235,7831],"class_list":["post-20870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-kennett-square","tag-library","tag-new-facility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20873,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20870\/revisions\/20873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}