NYPL Eliminates Sunday Hours

I suspect it has more to do with anti-Semitism. The library profession from which I recently retired has always been very tolerant of anti-Semitism, and the current waive of anti-Semitism which is now considered normative in the WOKE community (and most librarians are very WOKE) is the most likely explanation.

While the NYPL public libraries are government agencies, complaining to the politicians probably won’t help as most of them are progressive Democrats who probably see closing the libraries on Sunday as a cost efficient way to show their dislike of Jews.

Akuperma,
The NYPL is Antisemitic? Lol, That’s why they closed on Sunday.
I better reason is the Chasidish Rebbe’s convinced them to close because they heard some of their more “Open-minded” followers were taking their Kinderlach there & exposing them to all kind of Kefira & Tarfus.
There was quite a kerfuffle at one Cheder when a Rebbe saw a boy had in his bag a book about dinosaurs.

Kuvult:

1. Public libraries in general have long preferred opening on Saturday and closing on Sunday, even in neighborhoods with large Shomer Shabbos populations. Compare the Saturday hours to the Sunday hours. And as a consequence, they are unable to accommodate staff members who are unwilling to work on Saturday.

2. These biases go way back. Over a century ago, New York State’s librarian was fired at the insistence of the legislature since he was openly anti-Semitic – and the library profession was outraged by the legislature’s bias. Job discrimination even against non-frum Jews continued through the mid-20th century, and even today it is hard for someone who is openly Orthodox (Shomer Shabbos, and whose clothing and preferred days off based on the Jewish calendar) to get a job as a librarian unless working for a Jewish library or as a specialist in Jewish/Hebrew studies.

3. The people running NYPL are left wing Democrats, as is most of the city government. The new “politically correct” position is that all Jews (not just religious ones, though we are the most visible) are public enemies who should be discriminated against. What we would want is for advocates of “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” to be seen as what they are, Nazis if 21st dress and treated accordingly (fired and marginalized) but the reality is that they control most of the political institutes in blue cities and states.

R Avigdor Miller says that if you prefer reading English books – to read classics that teach proper middos, like working ethics. AAQ: if yo can still find them in the libraries. You are better off finding good old books at library book sales, where they sell old books donated by patrons. Next challenge: interest kids in reading them.

A good phrase, but more generally, part of the value of “old” things is – we know they survived time and were found out to be useful . Recent stuff – we don’t know how long it will last. Gemora pages were reviewed and amended over centuries. Many early baraitas are reviewed and rejected in Gemora, so the one hat survived the editing process are of higher quality.

I was not accuracte, I meant baraitas “early” comparing with amoraim. I don’t think they are treated the same. When gemora considers a need to amend, amending baraita is preferable to amending a mishna. Not sure whether the baraitos you mention have same status as mishna.

PS relevance to the OP: you see, we can have a scholarly conversation on a yom rishon without NYPL.