Tell me about public libraries. Why should we fund them?

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Anonymous Sun Oct 6 17:24:09 2019 No.13946521 [Reply] [Original]

Tell me about public libraries. Why should we fund them?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 17:28:13 2019 No.13946549 >use the library with a poor selection filled with smelly vagrants and not use amazon where you can find and buy any book and have it shipped to your door gee guess I should use the library

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 17:29:16 2019 No.13946567 >>13946521 >use libraries so we have complete control over what you can and cannot read "no"

Anonymous Sun Oct 6 17:31:04 2019 No.13946582

They were useful once for the dissemination of knowledge. Now they are only needed in universities and highschools. Regular people don't go to the library. Regular people don't read books. And those that would use libraries for their intended purpose know they can get it on the internet. It was a good idea. It's not anymore. The times have changed. Let it all burn.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 17:32:46 2019 No.13946593 >>13946521 Homeless people need places to sleep too.

Anonymous Sun Oct 6 17:32:58 2019 No.13946595
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>>13946521
This people are astonishing. They can take a topic regarding something I love, use daily, and happily give money to like the library and turn it into the smarmiest, most self-satisfied, cuntiest delivery on Earth.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 17:33:11 2019 No.13946600 >>13946582 >>13946567 >>13946549 >Spending 18.99 for a shitty new paperback when the exact same text is available for free

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 17:35:18 2019 No.13946609 File: 67 KB, 409x409, 1565888200033.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >PAYING to read books. >Actually MOVING your ass to some library half a hour away to share books with some other fags LMAOing at every non pirate

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>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 17:36:42 2019 No.13946623 >>13946521 Why not make them digital?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 17:38:24 2019 No.13946634 >>13946600 >can’t keep it

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 17:39:41 2019 No.13946647 I like my library, but every time I go after work it’s just filled with middle schoolers on the computers all playing fortnite and yelling.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 17:40:05 2019 No.13946648 >Patel Why are people like this allowed in our countries.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 17:40:26 2019 No.13946649 Fuck libraries. If someone has the intent to read, they will find the means -- especially with major access to the internet now at hand.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 17:40:43 2019 No.13946651 >>13946618 Lmao

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 17:41:36 2019 No.13946659 so homeless people have somewhere to sleep and shoot up

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 17:45:30 2019 No.13946680 >>13946521 because I can't afford to buy ten books per month

Anonymous Sun Oct 6 17:47:49 2019 No.13946688

>>13946648
How else is Goldwitz supposed to get his bonus this quarter?

>>13946623
>>13946609
The smart answer is obviously to just turn Libgen and Scihub into state funded ventures, but that goes against Liberalism so it's never going to be brought up.

Anonymous Sun Oct 6 17:49:54 2019 No.13946698
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*ting*
I utterly despise libraries and the #SaveOurLibraries shenanigans you find infested in the internet, namely on the site Reddit.com. These are mere AstroTurfing campaigns to make people feel good about backing a cause which receives little to no opposition, as "surely", they think, "surely, who could be against libraries?".
This narrative couldn't be as morally wrong as it obsolete.

Libraries are worthless institutions, occupied by beggars, homeless, sex offenders, 'but alas', sayeth the Librarian, "think of the children!" Alright then, let's take a tally of these children, shall we? These snot-nosed little brats are taken to the library by their parents who think their bastard progeny, in their vernacular, 'is the next Einstein'. Wrong Mr. Mom and Ms. Dad, your little Johnny and yourselves included, yes, the whole lot of you, are pseuds.

Indubitably, you could give every child an e-reader loaded with enough books to last their lifetime, for a fraction of the price to maintain community library, yielding much greater dividends, as the depth and scope of the material will far exceed the "My friend has two dads" tier drivel that will infect their minds as maggots a carcass until there is nothing left. Liberté, égalité, fraternité, themes for the children, and pop-books for Mom and Dad, like Michelle Obama's recent book. Young Adult selection abounds too, lest we forget. To what end? The books, are limited to convey tepid neoliberal viewpoints that support the misappropriation of limited societal resources The only libraries of worth are substantially large university/city libraries.

DISBAND,
DEFUND,
DECONSTRUCT LIBRARIES

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 17:52:26 2019 No.13946717 They should be a subscription service.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 18:05:56 2019 No.13946794 It's weird when you grow up and realize the reason librarians were so up in arms about the Patriot act is not that they wanted to protect readers privacy but because they wanted to help Muslim terrorists.

Anonymous Sun Oct 6 19:46:51 2019 No.13947323

>>13946698
this. libraries have become institutions of sin, just like universities. i drove by the one in the town over the other day and they had a sign out front advertising an "LGBTQ kids" event. i was filed with rage and i almost pulled over just to smash the sign.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 19:49:49 2019 No.13947345 >>13946521 Libraries are shit, they're shit with funding and shit without.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 19:50:50 2019 No.13947347 >>13946600 At least the books I paid for don't have cum stains in them from some homeless vagrant. Libraries are an antiquated institution and deserve to be phased out. Go be a retard elsewhere.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 19:50:53 2019 No.13947348 >>13947323 >almost Wow fucking badman here

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 19:52:59 2019 No.13947358 >>13947347 You must be nonwhite. We don't expect shitskins like you to appreciate our culture.

Anonymous Sun Oct 6 19:55:21 2019 No.13947369

The Seattle library is really nice, as is the library where I live. I do wish they'd kick out the homeless, though; I'm tired of regular people who work average jobs being told they can't go fucking anywhere without having to deal with vagrants asking them for shit, and for supposedly needing to feel guilty about it. Our city planners are faggots.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 19:56:34 2019 No.13947373 Libraries are good for studying though. Nice and quiet. I live in a nice area though so it's lacking homeless people

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:00:04 2019 No.13947394 >>13947348 dilate

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:04:45 2019 No.13947416 >>13946521 I'm broke and I use them. Simple. No one wants to spend $1,000 a year on books.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:05:56 2019 No.13947423 >>13947394 Seething weakling.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:06:39 2019 No.13947434 >>13947416 you can get books for like $4-10 on amazon you'd have to be retarded to spend a grand a year on books if it's over $10, save it for later and read other shit in the meantime

Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:08:27 2019 No.13947442

>>13946521
We should not. The average person does not read. They are gigantic wastes of time and money. Libraries are important for the preservation of cultural and literary artifacts and should be combined with museums.

A baseline minimum reading skill should be required to access libraries at all. The one in my town is basically a daycare center full of screaming children and homeless.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:09:37 2019 No.13947452 File: 117 KB, 750x563, 1526531049475.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I fucking LOVE libraries!

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:10:30 2019 No.13947458 >>13947423 tranny cope

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:14:17 2019 No.13947477 >>13947434 imagine living on only widely-circulated books

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:20:18 2019 No.13947501 File: 37 KB, 640x640, classy_pepe_5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13946698 Most based man I've seen today. I would've said this weekend, but I went go see the new film "Joker" in my own room on my computer.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:22:40 2019 No.13947511 >>13946659 And whack off under the tables. Don’t forget that.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:36:50 2019 No.13947567 >>13946698 Now this is what I call based.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:38:20 2019 No.13947580 >>13947477 imagine not buying exclusively leather bound editions unless you literally can't.

Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:40:58 2019 No.13947592

>>13946521
Libraries are only useful for the space they provide. I have never been to a library to take out a book. The only times I ever go is if I need a quiet place without the normal distractions of my life to study. If I want to get a book, I will go to a bookstore or order from amazon.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:48:59 2019 No.13947635 >>13946600 >he buys new books

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:51:52 2019 No.13947658 I have enough disposable income to build a small library at home.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:53:17 2019 No.13947669 >>13947635 >he prefers books that have had 48 different penises pressed between each page

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:54:46 2019 No.13947675 I actually like libraries and they've learned to diversify their usefulness by stocking things beyond books. They're pretty based in my country. I live in a pretty upper class neighbourhood and our library is actually a very beautiful institution.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:54:46 2019 No.13947676 >>13946521 she's not wrong at all but fuck dude i love having books. i love them. i love how they smell. i love how they look. i love how they fill my home. i fucking love books so god damn much.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:56:38 2019 No.13947682 >>13947669 >he doesn't love a bit of age on his products i bet you don't eat cheese because it's bacteria shit, eh anon

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 20:59:28 2019 No.13947699 >>13947682 depends on the cheese and the smell of it. but its not like people are jizzing on the cheese anyway, so its a false equivalent.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 21:24:09 2019 No.13947829 >>13947699 >not jizzing in cheese how in the fuck do you know, man?

Anonymous Sun Oct 6 21:30:55 2019 No.13947857

>>13947829
whats more likely, that someone who makes cheese for a living is going to get jizz on his hands while jacking off in the cheese factory bathroom and then not wash his hands or even just put on some latex gloves and get secondhand jizz all over the cheese, or some autist jacks off to some hentai then picks up a book after without washing his hands?

Anonymous Sun Oct 6 22:03:59 2019 No.13948032

>>13947857
>t. has never worked in a factory
man, there is piss and shit and cum in all the processed food. sorry to disillusion you. it's far more likely to get some cum in your mouth from eating food from a factory than an erudite book that has been sitting on a shelf for years in a warehouse.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 22:07:18 2019 No.13948047 >>13946521 Libgen.lc

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 22:08:33 2019 No.13948057 >>13948032 >he thinks i buy food that was made in a factory

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 22:09:01 2019 No.13948059 >Buying things bad! What a profound critique on the nature of the economic system.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 22:09:42 2019 No.13948067 >>13948057 >he thinks the farmers of his whole foods aren't even more filthy than the factory workers

Anonymous Sun Oct 6 22:11:05 2019 No.13948075

>>13946521
I will never go to a library again. Like 30 minutes of commute to look through a skeleton array of some of the most pleb YA shit I've ever seen. I've never found a book I was looking for at a library outside the college library which was four stories and even then consistently missing what I needed. Libraries are where bums go to jerk off and that's it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 22:13:33 2019 No.13948087 >>13948075 what, you think you're too good to jerk off with the bums? fucking midwit

Anonymous Sun Oct 6 22:18:30 2019 No.13948107

>>13948087
Seriously, libraries are fucking useless and I'm not poor. I prefer having my own personal collection at home to read at my leisure instead of some area where there's going to be crying children and bums begging for change and jerking off on public computers. They had a good collection of "rare old books" but the books were all related to legal or municipal matters. This is in Sacramento, CA.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 6 22:24:05 2019 No.13948128 File: 3.96 MB, 2659x4393, hmmmmmm.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] personally, i buy from thriftbooks

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 00:27:00 2019 No.13948688 >>13946521 here in Canada, libraries are for the homeless

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 00:29:53 2019 No.13948701 >>13946521 Education is unironically overrated as shit and things like libraries must be teared down.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 00:33:46 2019 No.13948710 >>13946618 jej

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 00:37:06 2019 No.13948726 >>13947458 Have sex little man

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 00:40:29 2019 No.13948735 >>13948128 >https://gaylepitman.com/about-the-author >By day, I teach Psychology and Women/Gender Studies at Sacramento City College. By night, I write children’s books and engage in other forms of subversive creativity. Holy based

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 00:43:00 2019 No.13948742 File: 400 KB, 1305x823, Screenshot_2019-10-06 Books Gayle Pitman.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13948735 lmao wtf is wrong with am*ricans, why are they so gay?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 00:43:54 2019 No.13948746 >>13948735 >a creative little hummingbird found me and led me to the magical world of writing for children >his name was satan

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 00:48:51 2019 No.13948763 >>13948128 just a quick glance, but i dont think Christopher Isherwood was jewish.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 00:49:23 2019 No.13948766 >>13946549 You know librarians can borrow books for you if your local library doesn't have them, right?

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 00:53:40 2019 No.13948783

>>13946567
Uh, you know libraries have been some of the staunchest defenders of privacy in the US, right? And that transaction histories for books you buy with credit cards, let alone online, are routinely sold to advertisers? Surely you know that and aren't just a terminal dimwit...right?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 00:55:11 2019 No.13948787 >>13948763 worse. he was an anglo

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 00:55:28 2019 No.13948790 >>13946582 Can I interest you in some actual facts about library usage? No? Oh, okay.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 00:55:58 2019 No.13948792 >>13948783 not him, but i often forget. i must be on so many AI watch lists.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 00:59:02 2019 No.13948804 >>13946649 You may not be aware of this, but many people use the internet access provided by public libraries.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:01:32 2019 No.13948816 >>13948804 yes, its vital for homeless coomers

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:02:17 2019 No.13948818 >>13946698 So you're mad about liberals ergo down with libraries?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:03:25 2019 No.13948827 >>13946794 Is this entire thread some kind of /pol/ retard invasion?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:06:52 2019 No.13948839 >>13947323 Maybe make a case in your community as to why you think normalising LGBT-whatever isn't great? That is, if you can get around that "almost", which I realize may be an insurmountably tall order for you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:10:15 2019 No.13948845 >>13948827 maybe stop being a bugman cocksucker? >>13948827 yeah, only a retard would think tranny sex libraries are a bad thing. THOSE FOOLS!

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:11:30 2019 No.13948848 >>13948128 my fucking cousin's book is in that image what the fuck man

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:11:35 2019 No.13948851 >>13947580 One of the gayest possible sentences

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:12:27 2019 No.13948855 >>13948816 free wifi is everywhere and even homeless people have a phone or some sort of device with a web browser. The library is a meme.

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:12:48 2019 No.13948857

>>13947347
I think the only people who ever consider beating off in books are entitled brats, very dimly aware of their own inferiority, but convinced their failures are owing to everyone else. Such people are upset by commons of all kinds, and I wonder why that might be.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:12:54 2019 No.13948858 >>13948848 die kike

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:14:02 2019 No.13948862 >>13947369 >NIMBYISM speaks

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:14:19 2019 No.13948863 File: 101 KB, 785x731, 1567553566230.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13948857 >NOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST CUM IN LIBRARY BOOKS!!!

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:15:31 2019 No.13948867 >>13947580 Some of us like to read books, not just jerk it to or on them.

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:17:59 2019 No.13948877

>>13948848
>>13948858
fuck off stormfag neither of us are jewish
weird as hell to see on here though...she got me into reading as a kid and introduced me to a lot of kino sci fi series and now all she reads are these shitty queer comics. this shit has taken over her entire identity and we cant even talk normally anymore

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:18:05 2019 No.13948878 >>13947501 kek

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:18:18 2019 No.13948880 File: 254 KB, 785x1000, 1567806009796.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13948867 >NOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST JERK OFF TO BOOKS!!!!! YOU HAVE TO REEEAAAAAADD THEM!!!!!

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:18:59 2019 No.13948885 >>13948877 YOU HAVE THE GAY. YOU CAUGHT IT FROM HER, YOU JEWISH FAGGOT.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:19:22 2019 No.13948886 >>13947658 Me too, but I still like libraries.

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:22:54 2019 No.13948901

>>13946521
Honestly before we could just pirate all our books libraries were fucking fantastic. You could go and learn far, far more than you could ever afford to buy.
University libraries with obscure books and important research material are still like that. That's why spending 10+ hours in a university library reading actual books while writing a research paper is still a valuable and insightful thing to do.

Most libraries are homeless shelters now though, because what else could they be?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:23:16 2019 No.13948905 >>13948107 >Sacramento, CA >uninterested in public life Checks out.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:24:52 2019 No.13948911 >>13948701 Formal education and the kind of exploration facilitated by libraries aren't really the same thing....

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:25:40 2019 No.13948921 Is it strange that I couldn't really care less about the loss of community libraries but I mourn the loss of Borders in my small town?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:27:08 2019 No.13948926 >>13948107 are you talking about the uc davis library? because we have little fiction here and the old books tend to be agricultural records

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:28:17 2019 No.13948928 >>13947442 I like this idea actually. We do need to preserve books. Combine libraries with legitimate museums. Problem solved.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:30:39 2019 No.13948936 >>13948911 shut up nigger

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:31:17 2019 No.13948939 >>13948921 you are a cuck slave to Capital

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:31:36 2019 No.13948941 >>13946567 This. They'd have us all reading rupi kaur books.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:32:49 2019 No.13948948 >>13948863 >>13948880 So "aye" to cumbooks and "nay" to reading. At least you're consistent, I guess.

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:33:25 2019 No.13948950

>>13948926
>>13948107
I'm from Sacramento area too. And I've been to the UC Davis library. I mean it was ok for the research paper I was writing and that's about it. I do think university libraries absolutely need to be funded, but for the most part they are not the same as public libraries.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:34:45 2019 No.13948958 >>13948936 Oh, yes sir! Seeing as how you said them mean words and all, I certainly shall!

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:36:46 2019 No.13948968 >>13948958 thats a good nigger. yes...

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:40:02 2019 No.13948977

>>13948877
>fuck off stormfag neither of us are jewish
It's almost like that people who make these charts see Jews everywhere, even when there are none.

The professor who introduced me to serious literature, letting me read in his library and borrow his old everyman' edittion's, the ones with the golden spine's, of hundreds of classic English works. The man who introduced me to Proust, and Mann, and Dante and everyone else who matters is now reading YA and talks about hating white people. I know where he picked it up, from his daughter and his students, but even when i knew his there were signs that he was slipping. In spite of the MASSIVE home library , im pretty sure he hadn't opened a volume in ages. And some 4 years ago he gave me about thousand books from there, clearly making room for more of the colorful covers that had already began creeping in on the margins.

He's also become impossible to talk to =(

And to think that had i only dated his nutcase daughter this could have been prevented .

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:40:11 2019 No.13948979 >>13948787 Not worse, but not good. Nothing is worse than a kike infiltration.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 01:56:20 2019 No.13949039 >>13948977 sorry to hear that man. that's a wonderful relationship you had the opportunity to experience while it lasted though. how did you become so close? was he an english professor?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 02:23:51 2019 No.13949114 Shared libraries are why mosr ancient scripture is lost. Private libraries are the most common source of ancient scrolls.

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 02:24:36 2019 No.13949118

>>13949039
he was in the same apartment building. I was in highschool, he was a visiting university professor and had that odd English sentimentality, sometimes bordering on the absurd, where you're often left wondering if he just wants to stroke your thigh, towards all young men interested in the art's. But to his credit he never did anything but give me slightly inappropriate reading martial and even tried to match me up with his daughter. Who, im proud to say, even at 15 or whatever i was, i could see was fucking insane.

Her life has been a treasure to follow BTW.
She's LGBTQJYFTFJG+
Has her boyfriend/husband, whatever he is, treated, by her, for porn addiction after she caught him looking at girls on Instagram.
Claims her mental health problems and psychotic breakdowns makes her better then other people.
and has the haircut for a 9 Yo girl from the 50's.

HE went away to art school only slightly mad and came back a full on lolcow.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 02:25:50 2019 No.13949120 >>13949118 >HE went away She*

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 02:30:49 2019 No.13949131 >>13949118 interesting...I know the sentimentality you're talking about. shame his daughter wasn't a qt that would've been comfy

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 02:37:50 2019 No.13949155

>>13949131
I know what you mean. I often though he wanted that from me. To be the offspring he wanted but never had. I even tried to be that, but now i think i was wrong. he didnt want another kid he really just wanted to introduce me to books, and that he did.

Then i went off to the army for 6 years, which i think he rather resented, and by the time i came back he was a different man. He whole world seems to have gone a bit mad in that time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 03:15:16 2019 No.13949254 >>13946698 based! ting ting

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 03:23:46 2019 No.13949269 >>13946582 Libraries>> Schools

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 03:56:04 2019 No.13949324 File: 48 KB, 492x449, 1553852146298.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Poor people shouldn't have knowledge. They don't want it and can't use it right anyway. This belongs on /pol/ anyway.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 05:44:33 2019 No.13949618 >>13948968 How blacks make their way onto here I'll never know. Take that loan money and run, think they can cut it after their Roots education. Nonwhites truly have no business being on this board.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 05:48:01 2019 No.13949625 >>13946521 Fuck libraries. People treat the books like shit. They don't deserve that. I'd much rather buy my own.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 05:54:33 2019 No.13949643 Feels good not being American and having good libraries. Come over to Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom for an example of a great library.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 06:35:51 2019 No.13949765 >>13949618 It's 2019 anon They now have these fancy "cellular phones" to browse the interwebz while picking cotton.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 06:43:18 2019 No.13949783 >>13946609 >those are the people criticizing capitalism

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 06:57:42 2019 No.13949818 >>13946521 Lotta loyalty for a rad fash

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 07:00:26 2019 No.13949824

>>13949765
>>13949618

Do you relay not get that you are the biggest retards on here? I dont even like the blacks, and i'd still take half of them over your fat ass.

you talk like white trash. Go away, stop embarrassing your race. The Jews dont have to do shit, your the reason white people hate each other.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 07:05:32 2019 No.13949835 File: 220 KB, 600x512, the_simpsons_Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Springfield.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13946521 what is about twitter than makes even good points look embarrassingly dumb?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 07:08:25 2019 No.13949845 >>13946567 Most libraries have a inter-library loan system so you can request books from other libraries that your current one doesn't have. It's especially good for somewhat obscure books that have gone out of print.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 07:37:49 2019 No.13949940 >>13946521 So that dealers can conduce their business at peace while perverts get to satisfy their sexual emergencies on the computers provided for free, at least that's what swedish public libraries are for

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 09:13:41 2019 No.13950251 >>13949940 so sex and drugs but no rock'n'roll?

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 10:56:37 2019 No.13950647

>>13946521
>look for copy of Storm of Steel at local library
>says it’s available but I can’t find it in section
>go to front desk, they send someone to search for it
>dude is gone for legit half an hour
>I’m still waiting, other librarians looking confused
>dude finally comes back with a copy
>says it was in some weird section or something
>whatever, just check out book
>door alarm goes off when I try to leave
>return to desk, ask wtf is going on. Getting pissed
>”oh this is an in-house book. You can check it out but it must remain in the library. You can read it here if you want.”
>just turn and leave book behind without saying anything
>go home and buy SoS on amazon for $8
>been buying books ever since
Fuck libraries

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 11:00:11 2019 No.13950668

>>13946521
I work for a library and it is very depressing, and often suicide appears to be more attractive than working in this job. One might imagine that working in a library entails having a quiet, spacious office in which to organize the library's inner layout, making sure books are ordered and delivered on a timely basis, overseeing new technology being implemented and so forth. I am 40 years old. For thirteen years now I have stood and sat at the front desk of a large urban library whose most loyal denizens are the homeless and the clinically insane. Schizophrenics are drawn here like moths to a flame. Alcoholics come here to snooze and disrupt. Niggers crowd the aisles and spread their toxic subhuman behaviour. I thought I would be advising enthusiastic kids what to read next, or helping elderly peasants become introduced to the world of literature in order to enjoy their final years thanks to the offerings of high culture. Instead I stand silently and alone as my miserable colleagues discuss their boring husbands or browse facebook or holidays websites to look out for the cheapest package deals. I am forced to replace urine-stained seat cushions. Forced to "kindly" "usher" out the bums who vomit on themselves and the constantly wide-eyed middle-aged women who start to scream and talk gibberish at a rapid pace if I approach them and tell them we are closing up. What a pathetic life I lead. I imagined I would be like Larkin, like Borges, like the kind of refined, reserved kind of man whose job allows him an air of mystique and glum erudition. Instead I am no better than a janitor who has found himself at the till of a supermarket. In 2008 I had a brief sexual affair with a student girl who spent a month here as part of her training to become a library. We screwed in the storage room several times a day. It was purely physical on her part but deeply emotional on mine. Eventually she realized she didn't want this kind of job and admitted she felt sorry for me and thought fucking me would make me less depressed and her less experienced. She is now working for a marketing company and is earning more than me despite being a member of a different generation. Please kill me. Please. Please. Please God let this be the day I am struck by a truck on my lonesome drive home. Let this be the night the niggers break into my home and garrote me as I lay sleepless staring silently toward the ceiling.

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 11:08:07 2019 No.13950699

>>13950668
You are surprised that that someone, from any generation, is making more money than you? When you work at a library? You should assume everyone makes more money than you. People on welfare and McDonald's make what you make. It's nothing to be ashamed about. If thars your choice. But it shouldn't surprise you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 13:23:50 2019 No.13951381 >>13950647 kek

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 14:14:34 2019 No.13951664

Is this just an American thing?
Even in Canada, I’ve never been to a Library that was anything like what these people are talking about. I buy books because I like to collect them, but Libraries are a fantastic access that should be utilized. Specifically by teens and kids who can’t just go out any buy whatever book they want.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 14:17:29 2019 No.13951682 >>13946549 this. Libraries are literally just daytime homeless shelters. Which is a shame, used to love going to the library.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 14:33:13 2019 No.13951780 >>13946521 You shouldn’t. You should support the availability of good publications and brick and mortar bookstores to build private libraries. Libraries are homeless shelters and daycares for autistic white women.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 14:52:15 2019 No.13951877 >>13951664 >Is this just an American thing? The #1 priority of american librarians after having trannies read books to children is to defend the rights of smelly homeless people to view pornography on the public computers.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 14:57:50 2019 No.13951903 >>13946521 No. Left-wing people deserve to be poor, their money looks better in the wallets of actual men.

>>	civ vi Mon Oct 7 15:14:32 2019 No.13952008 >>13946600 Based pirate.

>>	civ vi Mon Oct 7 15:16:15 2019 No.13952020 >stop buying books What motivates authors or publishists to produce books if they don't get paid?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 15:17:15 2019 No.13952026 >paid for my books, white boy yikes

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 15:25:25 2019 No.13952070

>>13946521
College libraries are superb and useful for getting obscure books and papers and such. Every public library I’ve ever been to looked like a homeless shelter, except in this one rich area where the library was also nice. For most books library genesis has it, so why bother with the regular library? The only time I don’t use it is because I’d like a physical text, but in those cases I plan to keep the book so I just buy it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 15:27:09 2019 No.13952079 >>13946521 Yes. Every human, no matter its condition, should have access to knowledge. it's a human right.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 15:27:37 2019 No.13952085 >>13950668 This copypasta makes me smile everytime. It’s going to be great once it gets overused and then stops being seen for a while but then a couple years later it pops up again and I’ll go “I’ve seen this before, what a classic!”

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 15:32:53 2019 No.13952117 >>13946521 hurr durr goy lease your shit, dont own anything. way harder to censor and destroy if people own shit good thing you zoomers lease games, music, movies, cars kys sage

>>	civ vi Mon Oct 7 15:34:47 2019 No.13952133 >>13949835 Profile picture with a smug self-righteous expression and the blue checkmark.

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 15:44:47 2019 No.13952208

>>13947369

I hear that. I have to deal with fucking vagrants everywhere in Seattle. Unfortunately it can be regular hazard at my work.

That Seattle main library is fucking amazing in my opinion. Reading on the upper levels is such of a cool place to be.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 15:47:02 2019 No.13952224 >>13946698 M'lady

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 15:58:12 2019 No.13952287 >>13948763 Several of these people aren't Jewish lol. These infographics are always hyperbolic and filled with gentiles.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 15:59:21 2019 No.13952291 >>13946521 >twitter screenshot k y s

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 15:59:51 2019 No.13952293 >>13946698 and the anon looked upon his post, and he said "okay, now this is based"

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 16:01:40 2019 No.13952311 >>13948855 Then mail me your computer, retard. You already have a phone, I assume.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 16:03:28 2019 No.13952315 >not using libraries Cringe >using American libraries Even more cringe

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 16:04:00 2019 No.13952316

People always shit on public libraries, but I loved going there as a kid. Recently, the one I went to all the time that had a garden to read in was flooded. I'm still fucking mad that so many books were damaged. You can say anything you want about them, but as a kid it was like entering another world where peace and learning could finally be associated with each other; unlike in school.

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 16:06:02 2019 No.13952327

Wow. I had no idea this was a right accelerationist board.

The point about librarians protecting privacy is a good one. I remember in the early days of the Bush Administration the libraries took a public stand against provisions in the Patriot Act that allowed the state to monitor book checkout history, etc. I remember being a kid seeing but signs about it at the library front desk.

Something tells me they’d be in favor of government monitoring these days.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 16:11:58 2019 No.13952356 File: 208 KB, 327x316, 2ec.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13952079 >Yes. Every human, no matter its condition, should have access to knowledge. it's a human right.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 16:12:04 2019 No.13952360 >>13952085 No one cares that you know it's a copypasta. I imagine you were the kid who would enthusiastically wave his arm around to answer the teacher's question.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 16:14:24 2019 No.13952373 >>13952360 This copypasta makes me smile everytime. It’s going to be great once it gets overused and then stops being seen for a while but then a couple years later it pops up again and I’ll go “I’ve seen this before, what a classic!”

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 16:17:20 2019 No.13952382

My local library won that award where a library in bumfuck nowhere around the world got like a million dollars. It's still dogshit full of smelly torn book, a shite selection for anything but the most mainstream books, a mediocre English language selection and the occasional fun but very basic robotics class. I don't think shutting them down is a good idea but this bullshit about wasting public money on expanding something completely outmoded by Amazon and libgen seems like a bad idea.
On the other hand, university libraries are a blessing and a vital tool if you actually want to get anything done

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 16:20:50 2019 No.13952399 >>13946549 My library has a pretty sweet selection, smelly vagrants is the part that keeps me away. I'm there to read and learn, not to give some homeless sack of shit a dollar. Also, the vagrants who should be in a mental institute kind of scare me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 16:21:52 2019 No.13952406 >>13946595 i hate twitter

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 16:32:56 2019 No.13952461

Priorities of american librarians.
>Protect the rights of homeless people to look at porn on the computers
>Throw out all the books written by old white men
>Drag queen story hour
>Buying lgbtqp childrens books
>Resist drumph by ordering 20 copies of every anti trump book that comes out
>Letting homeless people sleep in the lobby
>Drag queen story hour
>Buying lgbtqp YA fiction
>Drag queen story hour

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 16:39:35 2019 No.13952488

>>13948901
>>13948950
>>13952382
>university libraries
What is /lit/'s experience in using these as a non-student?
The library at the small college near my house has a pretty good selection, and I frequently go there to read and write. I've never asked about whether it's possible to apply for a library card there without being a student, most of the time I just read whatever I'm interested in without leaving the library building. I've heard about some schools that will allow residents of the town/city to check out books with a public library card, but I've also seen university libraries that won't let anyone in unless they present a student ID.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 16:42:27 2019 No.13952501 >>13952373 This copypasta makes me smile everytime. It’s going to be great once it gets overused and then stops being seen for a while but then a couple years later it pops up again and I’ll go “I’ve seen this before, what a classic!”

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 16:45:28 2019 No.13952510 >>13952327 this is a g/acc board actually

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 17:39:30 2019 No.13952832

>>13946521
>what is it about the word "books"
Books are the primary mode of human expression and every piece of technology invented since 1500 has been either for the glorification and propagation of the western printing press, or the destruction of all other means of conveying opposing thought.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 18:02:41 2019 No.13952979 >>13946609 >reading on a fucking computer You are the sad one here

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 18:03:44 2019 No.13952984 >>13946698 >american libraries LMAO

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 18:05:28 2019 No.13952993 >>13946521 You're a retard if you either buy books or use libraries in current year. Piracy is literally the only good part of the internet

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 18:08:22 2019 No.13953010 >>13952979 What is sad about reading on a computer, it's the most convenient thing ever

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 18:13:24 2019 No.13953031 >>13952993 >reading books I think we all know who the retard here is, anon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 18:14:47 2019 No.13953045 >>13952993 I still buy books as gifts, or when I really, really like a book, but that's it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 18:16:52 2019 No.13953051 Because homeless people need a place to stay :^)

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 18:23:44 2019 No.13953093 >>13946549 Are you averse to spending time with homeless people? They will play chess with you. The homeless is my favorite part of libraries. That and free internet.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 18:32:29 2019 No.13953150 >>13946549 >smelly vagrants Literally all my library is used for. I went there maybe 3 times a week as a kid, but started going less and less as more and more homeless people started hanging out there all day.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 18:34:46 2019 No.13953167 >>13953150 Would you prefer we call them 'homeless centers'? Where else are the homeless supposed to go when it is snowy outside? You want to read your books while they suffer. Trust me, many people are okay with them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 19:20:39 2019 No.13953418 >>13948107 This, I get annoyed when a book I buy on amazon is some old library version (and it wasn't noted). Allah knows what kind of filthy muck touched it

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 19:22:49 2019 No.13953437 >>13952501 This copypasta makes me smile everytime. It’s going to be great once it gets overused and then stops being seen for a while but then a couple years later it pops up again and I’ll go “I’ve seen this before, what a classic!”

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 21:00:50 2019 No.13953861 >>13953167 >Where else are the homeless supposed to go when it is snowy outside? home

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 22:10:10 2019 No.13954186 >>13946521 She had a sound point up until she mentioned libraries.

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 22:24:18 2019 No.13954251

Libraries should have mandatory IQ tests for admittance, a selection consisting solely of five exemplars of every classic plus textbooks on various academic subjects, and security guards who shoot brainlets trying to enter, as well as those who attempt to read certain "trap" books, left in the shelves as a filter for pseuds who lucked into passing the door test (for example, DFW's oeuvre would fit in this category).

Anonymous Mon Oct 7 22:28:06 2019 No.13954263

because for me, the uni library (which functions as the cities public library, anyone living in the city can apply) serves a purpose, as i usually do all my work there. i can sit in silence, use the computer, look at big books that have pictures in them and order a coffee. its a very calm place on the 3rd-4th floor and serves as a public space that i enjoy. i feel part of the city and of the people when i am there. i think there should be more public spaces that make you feel that way.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 22:48:04 2019 No.13954346 >>13954251 found the midwit

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 7 23:02:12 2019 No.13954405 >>13954251 ay man what you got against traps, it's 2019

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