Libraries are one of those concepts that sound very alien to today’s mentality “what do you mean free renting of copyrighted material without paying the owner company?!”
The whole concept of such a place as a physical conduit of knowledge seems to be one of the last things ergonomic still surviving.
And also a place of comfort for people of a certain kind.
I’m thinking that this irritated, depressed, sad state I’m currently in is in some sense because of not going to a library for some time (like 10 years) and picking a random fiction book with yellow pages smelling of dust. It’s more natural than searching for something to read in Google or in Wikipedia even.
Librarians are the real life solution to “tip of my tongue” questions like that
Librarians and Library’s are the very heart of our country and the fucking GOP and far right are trying to destroy that. And if we don’t stop them soon they will win.
Look at the Moms for liberty they are front and center trying to destroy Library and they are succeeding.
Education is anathema to their goals. Yes they want to destroy libraries… And elementary schools, and high schools and universities and public colleges and enrichment programs and scientific research and art and theatre and… Well most things it seems
Then they whine and cry and removed about all the foreign doctors and lawyers. My dad everytime I talk to him. He loves Trump and hates education but then crys when he must be seen by a foreign doctor.
He along with most of these assclown Trump lovers and GOP scum are so afraid of China taking over. My dad spews that nonsense.
I try to explain that yes some foreign country will take us over someday if you keep killing off education. No stem jobs, no scientist, or engineers. Along with doctors etc what do they think will happen?
They act like Idiotracy was documentary.
Edit: who removed part of my comment? Really WTF?
That’s a common misconception.
Idiocracy is not a documentary, it’s a warning.
The library is one of the last free places in most cities.
They’ve really come a long way. The one near me has gaming rooms for computers now. Free DVD rental, there’s a tea lounge, etc.
Constantly reinventing themselves.
My local library has a little maker space with a 3d printer and laser cutter/engraver you can book time on. It’s pretty awesome.
does anybody else remember before the computers lookup systems came how you could go to the library as a kid and say “I want to read about Egypt” and the librarian would walk you through the whole library pulling a dozen books off the shelves for you and giving you a summary of each book they suggest. it’s like they read every book in the library!
“LIBRARIANS ARE PART OF A SECRET ORGANIZATION TRYING TO ESTABLISH A NEW WORLD ORDER!!!”
-Some Maga asshat, probably
Uh oh. Penguin Common House is going to throw a fit that they can’t resell you a book in the public domain. Maybe they should sue the Internet Archive harder and also continue to lobby against public libraries.
This is a reminder: fuck Penguin Common House. Stop buying their books.
