Hardin County Public Library

Actual supply of, well, reading material, whether fiction, non-​fiction, online resources, e-​books, etc. gets one star. Barely. With the community support available, my rating hovers around 1.5 stars.
There is a borrower (or several — dunno) who leave brand new hardcover books so smoke-​bound they should be thrown away. Seriously, the smell is significant and lasting that it makes the books literally unreadable. Gross.
The library’s online systems (both digital catalog /​interwebs) are terrible. Who ever is responsible for their collection development /​management is both deranged and incompetent, despite (I’m sure) being a nice library lady /​gent who should really just go back to whatever they used to do. Or just go home. Because, nice library lady or gent, you have profoundly, absolutely no effing idea what needs to be available at a public library both as far as non-​fiction, classics, and development of a collection appealing to casual readers.
Nonfiction new acquisitions trend dramatically towards the FoxNews, conspiracy-​theory, anti-​academic, «If I state my opinion louder than yours, clearly I’m the winner, which validates my „wearing a tinfoil hat“ beliefs!!!» Really.
Fiction acquisitions are… well…unpredictable and pathetic. And they toss classics that every library should have a copy of, for no reason (it’s not like they’re pressed for space). It is effing shameful that people can’t go here and borrow a copy of well-​known classics by significant authors, because the library doesn’t have a copy. They spare a crap-​ton more space for paperback Westerns and romance novels than actually important books, which get culled from the collection with Children of the Corn-​type brutality (except they don’t give a grace period).
Additionally, it drives me up an effing wall and down the next how often they retain partially complete series, missing volumes (often multiple volumes). If only it were due to lost books, but it isn’t. It’s due to crap collection ordering and management.
They offer cds and dvds (for a small charge), as well. Computers are available for use. The staff are useful for communicating GED information.
The building hosts adult ed classes and other community events (many of which are cancelled or don’t actually exist), including «friends of the library» meetings.
Which is all a way of saying that this place, in point of fact, is a shameful, ego-​indulgent waste.