Pew Research: Innovative Library Services "In the Wild" (Johnson County Public Library, Hog Butchering)

Pew Research: Library services "in the wild"

Johnson County Library:  Central Resources Library

Check These Out at the Library: Blacksmithing, Bowling, Butchering.  (Wall Street Journal, 1/7/2013)

Excerpt:   Alex Pope had no qualms about the ruckus one of his employees made on a recent afternoon at the Central Resource Library in Overland Park, Kan. The fellow in a black apron and baseball cap sawed around the joint of a 120-pound pig carcass and snapped off the back leg. 

"It was a pretty audible crack," said Mr. Pope. "We like to start with that one because it's pretty dramatic." Enlarge Image Close John Helling/Johnson County Library A hogbutchering demonstration at the Overland Park, Kan., library in November. .

Mr. Pope, owner of Local Pig, a butcher shop in nearby Kansas City, Mo., was at the library to give a hog-butchering demonstration to about 100 people in an event advertised as "Books and Butchers."

Snark in this corner.  Hog Butchering Demo Brings Patrons Back to Golden Ghetto Libraries!!! (Tony's Kansas City, 1/11/2013)

Excerpt:   It's a bold new trend in attracting somebody besides hobos taking sponge baths in the public restrooms to local libraries.

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