Talk:The Zachary R. Smith Library
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I believe this article is pertinent to the community in several veins:
1. It serves as an educational center that is known to lend out several books to several patrons, with the promise that they return them in a promptly matter. The Zachary R. Smith Library is located in an educational area, near the University of Louisville, and thus it thrives on the campus community that stops by to hang out in the Browsing Collection, or to check out material for certain number of days.
2. To those that do borrow the books from The Zachary R. Smith Library, it gives those that wouldn't have the money or time to purchase the books to read them on their own time. Several books have been checked out from patrons that normally wouldn't have searched for the titles, due to patron's willingness to try something new.
3. The Zachary R. Smith Library is known to skirt the traditional process of larger libraries who hold an application process to borrow books, and lets those in need borrow directly from the acquisitioner.
4. The name sake, Zachary R. Smith, is known to frequent the holdings very often, and thus builds a certain bond with those that frequent the Library System. This bond would be widened if more information was brought forth to those outside of the reading network in Louisville, Kentucky, which this Wikipedia article does so successfully.
5. The Zachary R. Smith Library, deep in talks with its administration as well as frequent patrons, are discussing an Inter Library Loan System with various Libraries around the area. This Wiki article might bring more attention to those libraries within the area that could benefit from this function.
6. The Zachary R. Smith library focuses more on time periods, benefiting the patron with numerous copies of Walden, Kafka, or Nabokov's - leaving holdings that will have a particular item in stock.
I believe the action to delete this article would be foolish regarding the reasons listed above, and for numerous others.
What is noteworthy about this article, and its library, is the chance it gives the community to openingly review works of literature that the patron in question wouldn't normally, in a setting that best fits a literay setting.
I have been in The Zachary R. Smith Library several times, and I would hate to see this article be deleted. This wiki article is a great way to get the word out about this wonderful library. When I couldn't afford to be Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, I spoke directly to Zachary R. Smith, the namesake, and he let me borrow it - without the usual application process that the Louisville Library made me go through - until I finished it. Then, he personally sat down with me and discussed several theories regarding the text, he really helped me learn more about that particular book as well as other within his collection.
I just love hanging out in the newly added Browsing Section. This is a real deal library, and I can't believe that someone flagged it as not important! He or she must have not visited this recently!
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[edit] Keep It!
I have been in The Zachary R. Smith Library several times, and I would hate to see this article be deleted. This wiki article is a great way to get the word out about this wonderful library. When I couldn't afford to be Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, I spoke directly to Zachary R. Smith, the namesake, and he let me borrow it - without the usual application process that the Louisville Library made me go through - until I finished it. Then, he personally sat down with me and discussed several theories regarding the text, he really helped me learn more about that particular book as well as other within his collection.
I just love hanging out in the newly added Browsing Section. This is a real deal library, and I can't believe that someone flagged it as not important! He or she must have not visited this recently!
[edit] I have to agree!
I have to agree with what has been said about this article. Just yesterday I first saw it, I live nearby, and the guy personally took time out to let me in to the newly added Browsing Collection and review some of the most recent books he had on loan. This article actually helped me better my life, and now I have personally know the infamous Zachary R. Smith, and in the process of learning a lot from him, and The Zachary R. Smith Library.
[edit] What is the problem with this article?
I really don't see the problem with this article. It is very informational, it looks like the guy above me actually went to it and benefited from the wiki article alone - I don't see the problem with this. Why was this flagged?
[edit] I am actually here! What is the problem?
I agree with those above, and I am actually in The Zachary R. Smith Library surfing on the limited wireless internet network, reading a biography on Walt Whitman and trying to comment on this page. I don't see why this was flagged, it has been a great help to me since it's early conception on West Lee Street, when Zachary R. Smith only had a few books to rub together. I have only spoke to him a few times, but he has only devoted his spare time to find new and exciting works to add to the collection to bring some knowledge to those that enter the door.
It looks like someone just flagged this that hadn't been or something. Humph. Keep this, lurk on something else.
[edit] Why is this article in question?
I have seen the guy that runs it only a few times, but I have been in The Zachary R. Smith Library countless times, trying to learn the newest computer language or gear up for an English test when I couldn't find the text at the school library. This library may be small, but I do not believe we should suffer just because of lack of funds and no governmental backing. Why is this article in question!?!?!?!?
[edit] Sock Puppets?
Given that these supportive posts occurred within minutes of one another and that one of the contributors calls himself "nambla-member" I suspect that the tag of "hoax" is justified. Xdenizen 10:03, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
