[LMB] [SPAM?] Re: OT: library p*rn

[Paula Lieberman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <alayne at twobikes.ottawa.on.ca>


> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, J M wrote:
>> I was working for the Ottawa Public Library when they had just finished
>> building the now 'decrepit' library.  It was considered a marvel.  All 
>> that
>> space and a facility that didn't *leak*.  Open spaces...room to grow.
>
>> Funny how a mere 37 years changes perspective.
>
> Yes. It has leaked for many years.

If Frank Lloyd Wright had designed it, it would never have NOT leaked!


The sad fact is that new buildings get money, money for -maintenance- of 
existing buildings, however, is much more difficult to pry loose...
> And we won't get into the land deal involving a member of the then-library
> board that put the new library on only half the lot of the old one.