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I often go to the Cerritos Library. It is beautiful; having a giant aquarium, childrens section, and other areas that resemble some rich persons private library. It's all good until you consider that its paid for with taxpayer dollars.......it's far beyond what is necessary. It is another monument built for bureaucrats on the backs of the taxpayer.

I see nothing wrong if the general public (incuding the poor people) can use library which is beautiful and has "areas that resemble some rich persons private library".

Better to have beautiful libraries than beautiful banks and shopping malls.

You guys aren't getting the objections. Bureacrats are building these things as monuments to themselves on the backs of taxpayers.

I don't like the idea of a city taking money to make something beautiful where we can all go.

I see nothing wrong if the general public (incuding the poor people) can use library which is beautiful and has "areas that resemble some rich persons private library".

yes! aesthetic beauty is important in life... utilitarian decor has its place... but sometimes it's nice to have beauty...

this reminds of the passage in Matthew 26 where the woman pours the expensive ointment on Jesus... Judas Iscariot said that the money from the sale of the ointment could be put to better use... but Jesus allowed this action of aesthetic beauty...

He replied: Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful (the Greek word as an aesthetical as well as ethical meaning) thing to me. The poor you will always have with you...

so it's biblical that there is a time and place for beauty and a time and place for utilitarianism...