Oak Lawn Branch Library volunteer and Stonewall Democrats board member Phyllis Guest reports that the library’s selection of gay titles on DVD has quadrupled in the last few months:
The OLL has long had a selection of LGBTA books, both fiction and
nonfiction, with a number of new “Young Adult” novels coming in the
last year or so.
But the selection of movies and TV series on DVDs has been meager.
Then, between Thursday, April 1 (when I went on Grand Jury duty and
had to stop volunteering several days a week) and Thursday, May 27,
the DVD collection quadrupled.
Good news for the gayborhood, I think.
Phyllis
And now for the bad news: The Dallas Morning News reports today that the city may cut hours in half at neighborhood libraries next year, from 40 a week to 20 a week, due to the huge budget shortfall. Read more about that by going here.
If city hall would quit wasting millions of dollars a year, year in and year out, doing studies on how to improve downtown or how to convert the Trinity sewer into a water park, there would be money for libraries.
Thanks for reminding everyone of the many materials at the Oak Lawn Library and of the proposed gutting of the library system, John, and thanks to Montemalone for reminding us of the millions (billions?) spent on the Trinity sewer and steel “toys” in the new Main Street park.
Also note some City Council votes from last week: Yes to tax-increment funding for Lucy Billingsly’s new retail/residential development and a $20 million tax subsidy to expand the Joule Hotel (a Starwood Hotels property); $1.6 million for environmental cleanup at the site of the “planned” Belo Garden on Main Street; and $75,000 “to improve the image of Pleasant Grove.”
To voice your opinion before the City Council, call the City Secretary’s office, 214-670-3738 on the Thursday before the Council’s Wednesday meeting; e.g., call June 3 to speak June 9).