"It's long been an irritation to me that libraries have summer reading clubs. I want a library to have a summer non-reading club. You'd get points for using the various services and resources the library provides that don't deal with reading. You could combine the two and just call it the Summer Library Club. Some points for reading, some points for using the wi-fi, some points for coming to a gaming night, some points for checking out a DVD, etc."

• the relatively small number of adequately-stocked, adequately-staffed and conveniently-located branch libraries;
• the non-uniform and inconvenient-for-many hours that AFPL libraries are open for business;
• a customer-unfriendly online library catalog and a feature-starved, non-interactive library website;
• the lack of a clear, quick way for computer-owning cardholders to electronically request the purchase of a book (or nonbook item) - and the absence of prompt, reliable feedback on the disposition of such a request;
• the lack of year-round ordering of books that results in inordinate delays in books and other items being added to AFPL's collections;
• forcing card-holders to wait a minimum of three days for an item to be transferred from one library branch to another;
• the lack of a drive-up/pickup option to get hold of a library item without finding a parking place and getting out of one's car;
• the incredible cumbersomeness of obtaining an interlibrary loan item, and the lack of publicity about ILL;
• the library's unwillingness to offer library patrons an affordable (or free) books-by-mail service.

• Tony Tallent's Five Why Nots
• Helene Bowers' Five Why Nots
• Sarah Houghton's Five Why Nots

"...Every library has librarians who tend to think of technology in terms of a duality with books planted firmly on the other side. Computers are fast, shallow, and meaningless; books are slow, deep, and meaningful. I think these librarians feel that in order to provide some sort of balance that they become steadfast in their alliance to the old tools of book culture.

So how does one deal with peers who tell you that there is already ‘Too much Flickring in the world’? I think we need to make the case that the people who share themselves online tend to be the same ones who are engaged in politics, their community, are passionate about ideas. And that many of them are bibliophiles."