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underpants

(185,651 posts)
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 03:34 PM Jan 2022

A desk for working parents at a Henrico Public Library (Virginia)

A desk for working parents at a Henrico Public Library goes viral, called a 'game-changer' by Newsweek

https://richmond.com/entertainment/a-desk-for-working-parents-at-a-henrico-public-library-goes-viral-called-a-game/article_75a622a0-dac5-5bb7-9047-cd6b1d9c37fe.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=916


When Richmonder Ali Faruk snapped a picture of a desk for working parents at Henrico’s Fairfield Area Library and posted it to Twitter, he didn’t think much of it.

"A new public library in my area has these work stations for caregivers with babies!" he tweeted. "Maybe these are common in other places but [I've] never seen anything like this before."


The computer work-and-play stations at Fairfield Area Library debuted in 2019 when the brand new $29 million library opened to the public at 1401 N. Laburnum Ave. in Henrico.

There are four parent-child carrels joined together in a cluster on the second floor of the library in the children’s area. The desks were designed by the Henrico County Public Library and Quinn Evans, an architecture firm with a location based in Richmond, which designed the library. The idea for the parent-child carrels arose during the planning phase for the new 44,800-square-foot library building.


Washington Post link. God the Times-Dispatch sucks

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/desk-for-working-parents-at-a-virginia-library-goes-viral/2022/01/29/fa10279e-810b-11ec-8cc8-b696564ba796_story.html

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A desk for working parents at a Henrico Public Library (Virginia) (Original Post) underpants Jan 2022 OP
This is a great idea. Hope other communities start this. flying_wahini Jan 2022 #1
Progressive change in VA--obviously moreso around Richmond-- has been wonderful but... hlthe2b Jan 2022 #2
. . . Ms. Toad Jan 2022 #3
I looked underpants Jan 2022 #6
It was a few days ago. Ms. Toad Jan 2022 #7
try this Piasladic Jan 2022 #8
Thanks - I couldn't find it. n/t Ms. Toad Jan 2022 #9
Here Demovictory9 Jan 2022 #10
and you bet Susie QAnon will bring baby Kimmberleeigh and use it and she won't support libraries CurtEastPoint Jan 2022 #4
Furry cages? VGNonly Jan 2022 #5
K&R demmiblue Jan 2022 #11

hlthe2b

(105,429 posts)
2. Progressive change in VA--obviously moreso around Richmond-- has been wonderful but...
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 03:42 PM
Jan 2022

will that all go away now that the R(regressive) party has taken control?

Ms. Toad

(35,231 posts)
7. It was a few days ago.
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 03:56 PM
Jan 2022

At least two librarians took extreme issue with this desk.

I'll see if I can find it.

CurtEastPoint

(19,075 posts)
4. and you bet Susie QAnon will bring baby Kimmberleeigh and use it and she won't support libraries
Sat Jan 29, 2022, 03:52 PM
Jan 2022

unless they did something for HER.

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