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A more basic question... who even goes to a library anymore? The concept of hard and soft covered books is quickly being dated (setting aside school textbooks, etc) . I question if kids even know what the Dewey Decimal Classification is.
Virtually everything is available on line (though not necessarily free).
The UDC works quite well.
What really disturbed me was that I phoned up the local (very good) library, talked to the head librarian, and stated "I have a complete set of the original Harvard Classics (51 volumes, 1910), and I will give them to the library". The response I got was "What is that?" So much for Library Science.
Man, I'm in the library all the time. Physical books are still very much alive. Our city has decent libraries and the new releases are always there, fiction, non-fiction and instructional books. For me, I just can't get into reading books online as much as I do offline.
I used to occasionally look at adult material on library computers. This was WAY BACK in the 1990s. Internet connections were very slow, and I couldn't truly "enjoy myself" (wink, wink), so it wasn't worth much of my time. But there were certain things I really wanted to look at, and I didn't have a computer yet. The library had the computers set up so that the monitors were completely shielded from people passing by. I don't recall ever hearing about a problem with it.
You don't go to the PUBLIC LIBRARY and watch porn, I'm sorry. I'm just trying to understand how people say, "Well, gonna go to the PUBLIC library and try to look at some porn." How does that even work? That just doesn't even feel right. "I'm gonna go, sit down at one of the computers and try to sneak it in ... hopefully nobody sees me ... and if they do, oh well. "
In terms of the Supreme Court case, don't know, don't care.
Actually, there were two people, I mentioned I go to the library regularly. Like I said, I go because I can rent the latest books and read them without having to buy them. The library I go to always has the latest tech books, travel books, and a ton of non-fiction and fiction. It's pretty damn awesome to just stroll into a library, pick up a book and read. I don't know where you live, but in my neighborhood, the library is ALWAYS busy and it provides a good community.
Also, I noticed a lot of young people in their studying. Tutors also use it as a place to conduct their tutoring sessions. And lastly, the library is a good place to read the newly-released magazines. Libraries usually have a ton of different magazines that they order and you can read them for free.
Then we should relabel it 'bathhouse'
Maybe put in a few showers, set up some cots, free meals....
Geez this is a library.
I used to not feel comfortable when the homeless people would hang around in the library. Honestly, they used to smell it up, but they really would go in there and read, they found it peaceful and I thought it was a blessing that they had somewhere to go during the day. They would always look so lonely (some, well, the majority), but they would at least be reading. But you're right, it sucks when they would use it as a bathhouse, smelled pretty bad. The main library in our city cracked down on it because people complained.
A more basic question... who even goes to a library anymore? The concept of hard and soft covered books is quickly being dated (setting aside school textbooks, etc) . I question if kids even know what the Dewey Decimal Classification is.
Virtually everything is available on line (though not necessarily free).
The UDC works quite well.
LOTS of people still go to the library, or I'd wouldn't be so darned busy all day... and you clearly haven't been to a library in ages, if you think otherwise! Either that, or you live in a very wealthy neighborhood, where everyone can afford Kindles, Netflix, iTunes, iPads, database subscriptions, etc, and/or is attending a university with their own library. Oh yeah, and everything is NOT available online, not to mention most modern libraries have extensive digital collections and online databases.
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What really disturbed me was that I phoned up the local (very good) library, talked to the head librarian, and stated "I have a complete set of the original Harvard Classics (51 volumes, 1910), and I will give them to the library". The response I got was "What is that?" So much for Library Science.
Well, then she was either an idiot or not a real librarian... and Library Science still exists, considering you need a Master's Degree in Library & Information Science to even apply for a librarian position. I should know, seeing as I have the degree myself!
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Nobody's saying that there is (or isn't) a right to have a computer in a library.
So much for Library Science.
The main library in our city cracked down on it because people complained.
