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Hoping my cousins made it through Ophelia fine. Have two sets of cousins in NC. THe ones in Raleigh I'm sure are fine. The ones in Wilmington since its coastal, I'm a little more worried about. I figure since Ophelia seemed more wet than destructive they're fine relatively speaking.

Found out something highly disappointing and pathetic about my new library. Well this part isn't the new thing....yes I'm in a rural setting, yes the library is relatively small but it's bigger than both the one in WI and the one in FL. However, you can only look at the books online. It's literally just a card catalog. Their entire website is non-functioning other than to be a card catalog. You can't put books on hold. You can't renew books you have nothing. Even the exceedingly rural library in Three Lakes population well under 1000 (unlike Jackson where I'm at now which about 7,000+)

There is no one on staff under the age of 50 and none of them are competent with the computers. (actually heard one of them yesterday say "If'n I had knowed it was you...) Well I went in with a bunch of new mysteries to look up, about 12 of them. I found ONE and that included nothing by Martha Grimes who is a long standing major name. I was commenting on that and they said well we can do interlibrary loan. I said they're not in the system. Finally a 40 something woman came over (finally someone who's not older than my mom worknig at this place) and she said the computers here don't show other libraries in this county. I stared at her and said are you seriously telling me you have a computer system that isn't hooked up outside of this library at all? 'no we don't'

We had started a county wide card catalog in my college library back in 1989. These people have nothing. So if I actually even want to look up a book I have to stop a librarian. This is beyond pathetic.