Nitpicking?

Not in my opinion. Schools should promote literacy. You can receive (I did not say "earn") an education degree with a 2.0 GPA. We should be doing better than that in our educational system.

The Omaha public library made volunteers wear a button that said, "Can I help you?" Unbeknownst to me, I asked one of them while he was in the company of the director of volunteers, why he submitted to wearing a button that promoted poor grammar in an institution that should be promoting literacy. . . .The buttons were gone the next time I visited the library. (Yes, I know "unbeknowst" is out-of-date, old-fashioned, etc., but it is stuck in my vocabulary and therefore, still in use by me if no one else.)

On a somewhat-related topic: I was disappointed to find out that the library here does not utilize volunteers to shelf read. . .I loved doing that for the University of Nebraska Omaha library. . . .

The library does utilize volunteers in it's bookstore.What? Yes, the local library has both a coffee shop and a retail new-book-selling bookstore.

Local libraries in direct competition with the local independent bookstores and coffee shops? Should that be allowed when tax dollars support the library?

blogPS: anenome hits on Google are numerous--I suspect it is as a common error as "May I?" and "Can I?"