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Old 12-03-2022, 09:42 AM
 
Location: midwest
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Old 12-03-2022, 09:47 PM
 
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Sorry the job search isn't working out, but libraries aren't really vital infrastructure to our economy. I hope the libraries are able to make their cuts and keep running, but we don't need to be wasting money. The "services" being cut are pretty far from the standard library services of storing books on a shelf. We don't need to continuously stock up on new books when the best books were written decades ago.

The Texas State Law Library that is being closed is duplicative of the public law library down the street at the UT school of law.
Wasting money?? WASTING MONEY?????

Heaven preserve us......
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Old 12-03-2022, 09:49 PM
 
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yep. We needs to be aspending our money on important things.

Like wars, weapons, corporate tax cuts, rural airports for the reech folks to gits to their hunting lodges . . .

Talking important thangs.

So get along to kooo-rea. Maybe they will learn you to make donuts and you can come back and open a donut shop.

In a library.

Libraries with donut shops . . . . Hmmm.
(lol)
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Old 12-04-2022, 11:01 AM
 
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I know this topic is over a decade old but the name of this topic reminded me of this song:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axWVMr-RpMM
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Old 12-04-2022, 03:45 PM
 
Location: Wonderland
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Interesting stats:
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/...t21_701.60.asp
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Old 12-05-2022, 06:57 AM
 
Location: Daleville, VA
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>>>[Eric] Klinenberg was walking a design team around Brooklyn when they pitched him an idea called a “resilience center.” The building was supposed to act as a home away from home. There would be programs geared toward children and the elderly, with activities such as craft classes, book clubs and film screenings. There would also be free Wi-Fi, comfortable seating and coffee.

Klinenberg told the team they just described a library. “It was weird because they basically just spent months reinventing the wheel,” he said. “I got frustrated about that because I love libraries, but the truth is that we live in a moment where a lot of people do take them for granted, and fail to recognize that we do have these things called libraries.”<<<

I was blessed to be able to hear this lecture in person in 2019!

Eric Klinenberg Lauds Value of Libraries as Social Infrastructure - The Chautauquan Daily
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Old 12-06-2022, 07:49 AM
 
Location: We_tside PNW (Columbia Gorge) / CO / SA TX / Thailand
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As expected Texas is well below average in per Capita library usage.

Several reasons, but our library is only open 10-6, no evenings, li.ited Saturday hrs, closed on Sunday. So workers and students have little to no access. The staff are just babysitting the homeless who've invaded the space. (Heat, dry roof, AC, and restrooms). Add a meal program, and eventually overnight stays, and libraries can again become popular in the USA.

Several countries I have lived, you must make reservations for a window of time to visit the library. They are packed with people desiring to learn. And they are open 7am- midnight 7 days / week. There's something wrong with our (USA) picture.

For Texas....
. Libraries? We don't need no stinkin' libraries!
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Old 12-06-2022, 08:42 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Book learnin’ is for damn Yankees.
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