Lets have a library thread. You can talk about your local. Funny or interesting stories. And a few questions>What do you think could make libraries more appealing?>Are libraries dead? Will they eventually be turned into something unrelated to study and literature?
I'd feel silly to repost my story from the last thread, though
>>24729923When was the last thread?
>>24729921Libraries will simply adopt to the times like they always have. If the internet couldn't kill them now, it never will. AI-content might even help libraries since social media is becoming more unreliable and the open web is pretty much dead
>>24730005>AI-content might even help libraries since social media is becoming more unreliable and the open web is pretty much deadI have been theorizing the same thing. Like at some stage, people will realize that the entire digital work is virtually untrustworthy, which would drive people back to books and old methods of research.
>>24729921I actually go to this NYC library frequently, although it's never this empty, they have an open sunlit cafeteria space where you can write and people watch.
>>24730090Not even "old methods of research" would apply because many libraries have apps
>>24730459Main branch on 42nd?
>>24729923If you take out the sinophobic passages we might actualy read it this time, hater.
>>24730565This is the Morgan Library, which is really more of a museum of the private library of ancient industrialist Henry Morgan, but they have good exhibits that are usually literary themed.https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/current
i'm in las vegas right now and the library has armed gaurds, sometimes two at a time, and the place charges money to check out books. this is not a deposit. you do not get the money back when you return the book.
>>24730744picture of the gaurd.
>>24730459I am very jealous. It looks beautiful.
>>24730744>>24730760Fucking hell man. Is it busy? How many people are there?
>>24730771busy but not bustling. i'd say 40 people at a time, at least ten of whom are homeless looking the beat the heat in a space of ~20,000 square feet. the only thing i've seen the gaurds do is wake up the homeless when they doze off. they don't care if you eat or talk loudly.for the record, i'm here for a memorial service, but i've come a day early, so i'm spending the day here.
>>24729923>>24730580I am interested in your sinophobic passages, please post the whole thing. Here are some silly looking chinamen to help you feel less silly about it yourself.
I actually started a librarian job this month but its a college librarian not an actual library.
>>24730744Sadly its the only way they can survive.
>>24730835Haha, oh man, those Orientals are ridiculous
>>24730744>Prices listIt’s not for borrowing books you inbred tard, that’s the library bookstore where they sell extra shit that gets donated to them. How retarded are you that you wandered into the bookstore and missed the entire rest of the library?That’s why the prices are so cheap btw, it’s all old stuff they kept in storage. You can buy a crate of old paperbacks for 10 bux.
>>24730857Dude that is awesome. I'm jealous. What it like?
>>24730898Honestly since it's a college library just pushing a trolly, putting books away, putting books in the right order as students always muddle them up, and accepting essays since they gotta have a physical copy and upload it online for legitimacy purposes or something.
>>24730005A lot of libraries are already moving to online spaces which is their best bet. ebooks, free podcasts etc.
>>24730945Do you interact with many students? Dispersing wisdom and advice? Have you started faking a British accent?
This has been said so many times that it's hard to hear it as anything but a cliche, but the idea of a library would never gain traction in the modern political climate. They've been generally accepted as a public good, but as both books and public works become less desirable to many people, libraries are really going to suffer.I imagine that with less and less funding libraries will become more and more utilitarian.
>>24731213This is the truth. My library is essential dvd rental, internet cafe, immigration assistance. The book section gets smaller and smaller.I cant imagine what libraries were like in, say, the 80s. Like pre-accessible internet. I guess people just read, wrote, studied etc.
Ah the library, or as it is commonly known now, the vagrant's wanking way station.
>>24730588Nice choice. Every time I go to a NYPL branch I instantly regret it because the historic main branch is full of tourists and the rest are basically homeless shelters.
>>24729921I went to the Morgan library. It's a great place to visit when you're in NYC.
>>24729921That carpet must have cost a fortune
>>24731314>the 80s.They were great. No bums, lots of books, card catalogs, stacks to wander in, ample comfy chairs.
>>24729921If you are gifted and targeted the library system is one of the primary means of spying on us
>>24731352I am jealous. i wish I could have experienced that. Also, having a flourishing lit scene as well. New works across whatever spectrum, a sense of excitement. Like the internet but irl.
>>24729921I live near providence and have wanted to go to the Athenæum for a while now just because it looks so comfy. But I’m obviously not going to borrow a book (I have an TBR stack of second hand novels longer than my… well it’s long) and I feel like I’d look like a weirdo just going there to look around for a bit then leave lol. Might look for an event or speaker that would be a good reason to pop in but then I’d not get the chance to visit it and freely walk around.
Parking lot dime bagsFlower garden homeless campGlaring feral niggers aboundPC slots and footballDVD section always expandingDiversity posters cover wallsOpen drug market behindFewer books than ever"Library is for everyone"(excluding people who read)
>>24730885also why "library discards" are on the price list
>>24729921The last time I went to the library there were developmentally disabled people screaming in it; not like angry screams, but beyond being laughter. Also lots of immigrant kids shouting at their parents while they were trying to work, and then those same parents were talking on the phone. There was about a dozen shelves of books, fewer than I had at my high school 15 years ago. City spends upwards of $4,000,000 a year on this one facility and it’s been reduced to a WeWork for foreigners.>>24730744Those are surplus books for sale, anon.
>>24731595Mine >>24731675 would be forgivable if they still had a collection of DVDs but those have also gone down. Most of the space is reading areas now, the only issue being every time I’ve gone in there it’s impossible to read due to all the screaming. They do have big “no camping” signs on the flower garden, though.
>>24729921I outlined my ideal library in this post.https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24568981#p24571463>>24729923Is it the ones where there are slicers at the front?
>>24729921>library storiesOnce after watching one of Ginger Banks videos I jerked of under a table at the school library. It is the most exciting thing I've done in my entire life, Jesus Christ the adrenaline was unreal.
>>24731940Back in high school there was this wiccan chick with poor hygiene from a broken home who got in trouble for masturbating at a library table, probably circa 2007 or so. Seemed like a nice girl, hope she's doing better these days.
>>24731675>The last time I went to the library there were developmentally disabled people screaming in it; not like angry screams, but beyond being laughter. Also lots of immigrant kids shouting at their parents while they were trying to work, and then those same parents were talking on the phone.I am grateful to live in a small city where none of that creepy dystopian shit goes on.
>>24731330>basically homeless shelters.Why not kick the homeless out? If homeless tried to take up in any of my local libraries they'd be mopped up fast.
>>24732053Retarded progressives are the problem. Libraries need to be safe and quiet spaces again
>>24730768>I am very jealous. It looks beautiful.NYC is full of amazing rich architectural wonders built by robber barons, come visit there's dozens of beautiful places like this.
>>24731923That was my thread he posted in, I remember it.
>>24732051heh look at how old fashioned this pic is. I bet everyone is bored out of their minds lol
>>24730835>>24731923It's this >>24725297The Oriental had it right
>>24732268I wish a bunch of libraries could come together and test different setups to see which methods produce the best library. Like have a library go super strict and old fashioned, just to see what happens.
>>24732053The NYPL is fundamentally an activist organization at this point. "Serving the community" or some shit is their objective, and letting homeless men in is part of that. Not only do the police have more important things to care about than expel them, but I'm sure if they ever tried it'd be a whole fucking incident involving the NYPL, city gov, homeless advocates etc. It's not changing unless the NYPL is fundamentally broken apart.
>>24730866The fuck are my taxes even for then?
>>24733646Rarely anything useful. The Carnegie Library in my hometown is now a restaurant.
