In an announcement by Director of Global Libraries initiative, Deborah Jacobs, the foundation states "This revolutionary new building will bring the joy of modern architecture to the Kinshasian population and provide many impactful places for patrons to sit and read."

The library will also provide a "mixing room" where patrons can masturbate to internet pornography.

Best of luck to her, and I hope we find an equally passionate replacement.

Look, the general public may believe her own publicity - at which she is quite skilled - but for anyone who's worked at the libraries who is not one of her little coven, that is GREAT news. The woman is a slash-and-burn finger-pointing Type A headcase. I have never, ever regretted my decision to leave that miserable environment.

Um, what the hell are you talking about? Who made this mythical land swap offer of which you speak?

Before Jacobs even came on, there was an unsuccessful City Library bond proposal in 1994 or 1995 that only had funds for a new Central Library - and precious little else for the rest of the system. They brought it back to the ballot after adding a lot of projects to renovate and/or add new neighborhood libraries and voters passed it handily. As far as I remember, there was never any serious proposal for anything but a new stand-alone Downtown Library (and as I recall, I was happy at the time that they kept it at the original location instead of moving it to the so-called "Cameras West" block as part of the whole foul Nordstrom Garage deal).

You may have reasons not to like Jacobs (or the building that resulted), but that particular line of attack is way off base.