Despite offering such services as renewing online, our local library seems stuck in the past. There was a sign announcing that the library would close on February 12, for Lincoln’s birthday. Lincoln’s birthday has not been a public holiday in the US for twenty years, losing its status as such in 1986 when President Reagan declared the third Monday in January as a Public Holiday to mark the birthday of Martin Luther King.
Thus, I find that not only do I not get all of the official public holidays off, but I don’t get the unofficial ones, that other people still get. Since Friday is one of those public holidays not honoured in the private sector, President’s Day (which is on Washington’s birthday) ; the library will have managed to have six days before February is much more than half over (New Year’s Day, President Ford’s funeral, Martin Luther King Day, Lincoln’s birthday, and President’s day)
