Library needs to add hard science reference books

My hard-earned home equity goes toward funding the East Bonner County Library District, staff salaries, retirement, and health benefits. EBCLD has a glaring lack of secondary and college level books in mathematics, computer science and programming languages, while spending substantial funds on non-essential expenses.

Many students using the library have cellphones and no idea how they work or how to program Android. Without these book resources, STEM in Idaho is nothing more than a fallacy sold to library patrons. 500,000 H1B high tech engineers outsourced by U.S. corporations for tech jobs in the U.S., who do the job for one-fourth of the salary an American engineer would expect. Unless your STEM has a solution to these simple world economic facts, all the high tech toys and fun activities at EBCLD won't help any patron get a STEM field career. I can assure you that the non-U.S. engineers didn't have access to such expensive diversions, and they got the tech jobs. EBCLD needs the right "STEM" books, and students reading them rather than playing video games for hours on end at the library computers. Students are not learning how to program the software that makes them work, just amusing themselves at taxpayer expense until their parents pick them up after they get off work.

Focus on providing hard science reference books, otherwise STEM is just a buzz word you use to give the appearance of progress or advancement, while foreign workers get the tech jobs.

MARK ROSSMILLER

Sandpoint