remember to visit your local library!put those tax dollars to use and check something out!attend an event or listen to a presentation! ask your local librarian to do an interlibrary loan if they do not have the book you want!t. your local library workerp.s. - ignore the homeless addicts, please
>>24119015I had an interview at my local library, moved to the next stage for a 2nd interview and didn't get it. Out of humilation I refuse to go in there.
>>24119015I wish they'd shut them all down and replace with some kind of warehouse pickup system for books only. All the books you really need are available on Kindle anyway, so maybe skip the warehouse.
>>24119036it's called interlibrary loan dude
>>24119044american moment
>>24119015I went to my local library (rural England, real, not New)Half of their catalogue are children's books and romance/crime novels. The history section is popular garbage. I could not find a single classic work.They have a good collection of local history books. In the one I picked up the other day there was a paragraph about the house I grew up in.
>>24119036just place whatever you want on hold. then you can just go in, pick up the book, and get out.
>>24119015I'm about to, I desperately need a good writing group, I'm wondering if a library would be a good place to find one
>>24119327it never hurts to look! my small library has just started one. it's all-ages, so it's not very /lit/, but it's better than nothing. there was a lot of interest in it.
>>24119015It's definitely worth using libraries especially for books that are hard to find online. The other things that you said are just too idealistic for this world.
>>24119382wtf are you talking about. i need to go online to find books the library system doesn't have, not the other way around. google books have more than any library in the world, since they scanned most of them including collections the libraries discarded subsequently. this isn't 1990.
>go to library>empty dime bags crinkle under my feet in the parking lot>vagrant muttering to himself stinks up the doorway>lobby has large imposing theft detectors >computers everywhere>man playing online slots>man watching football>man sleeping with browser on softcore porn webpage>stacks are half empty> new arrivals packed with Things that Whatever Everywhere>feral black stares and follows me around the library>another sits at a table and stares into space, grunting occasionally>black kids running and chasing each other>signs everywhere extolling diversity and various strands of faggotry>no books of interest>leave>guy on bicycle tries to sell me drugs
>>24119623have u tried moving out of baltimore?
>>24119015I'm not poor and I like annotating. So I'd rather just buy a book.
