A Library Isn’t Just a Building Called a Library

There seems to be no end to pointless ways that people use to supposedly promote libraries. The latest comes from Poland of all places, according to this article. The headline asks “would more people use the library if it had a water slide?” We can turn to Betteridge’s law of headlines and safely answer no. In the opening paragraphs, we move from an alleged crisis to a really bad solution: In 2010, Poland's National Library performed a survey to determine the reading habits of the Polish citizenry. The results were not buoying: 56 percent of Poles had not read a book in the past year, either in hard or electronic form. Just as bad was that 46 percent had not attempted to digest anything longer than three pages in the previous month – and this included students and university graduates. Why not put these numbers the other way? Almost half the country read a book last year! Over half the country read more than three pages last month! It sounds pretty stupid trumpeting ... 
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