Today’s mail brought me “Storyline,” a 12-page glossy “magazine” of the Oak Park Public Library. One wonders how much money was spent on this, taking into account the time spent by personnel, printing costs, mailing costs and so forth.
The periodic one-sheet insert in village mailings seems more than adequate to communicate anything worth communicating. Does anybody really care that some random librarian loves a punch needle kit? Do we really need a glossy brochure with hours and closing dates? Nobody is going to keep the brochure as a reference source for such things. Any normal person would simply Google for it.
I worked my butt off to earn the money that goes to the library in taxes. I’m not at all amused to see those dollars wasted on trivialities and information nobody needs in brochure form.
Bob Stigger
Oak Park