Wednesday, October 6, 2010

An embarrassment

I was doing some research for an article I'm currently working on. It's about how playgrounds are changing, becoming less structured and essentially more natural.

I took out some books from the Ryerson library. The books are looked pretty good from the outside, nothing obviously wrong with them, which is what I expect from a university library.

Usually, they're in pretty good condition, but of course there is the odd ass-hole who will write all over pages, highlight text and circle things they want to look at a later. It's annoying, but at least the text is there and legible.

So, imagine my surprise when I opened up one of these books, started scanning some pages and came across this!











A giant hole cut out of the middle of a page!
That's a lot of information missing. Was it text? Was it a photo? I will never know if it was something that I needed. What if it was life-altering information that I will now forever be missing?

Plus, this says a lot about the respect that students at Ryerson have (or rather don't have) for the library material. Frankly, when I found that giant hole, I was embarrassed to be a young student attending Ryerson University.

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