As Bowieite Jimmy Marcos, his two small children and wife were about to check out books at the Bowie Library last Thursday afternoon, they happened upon a handful of teen-agers arguing with a librarian.

"The language was just ridiculous," Marcos told the Blade-News Friday."They have no respect for anybody."

It's the latest in a string of complaints about some of the children who block doorways, loiter and generally make a nuisance at the library.

Last week, Marcos intervened for the "older librarian," who he said was trying to get one boy to leave the library. He, another boy and "two or three girls" loudly - and...