Post ATAoEETRHuNsl4jw4e by magdalen@mastodon.wellperns.com
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(DIR) Post #ATA0EItxpW6MmazGvQ by joannarifkin@ecoevo.social
2023-02-28T21:43:14Z
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Not sure who needs to hear this today, but remember, your local public library benefits from being used! Usage statistics are how librarians argue for funding! By using this shared service more, you are making it BETTER for everyone else! It's the glory of the commons, not the tragedy of the commons. Go to the library!!!
(DIR) Post #ATAoEETRHuNsl4jw4e by magdalen@mastodon.wellperns.com
2023-03-01T00:39:59Z
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@joannarifkin I love my library! But they have increasingly turned toward automation over personal interaction, a move that has a negative effect on our community here in Central Oregon. Why talk to a real human when you can order your books online and check the books out yourself at a giant glowing terminal? Ugh.
(DIR) Post #ATAoEFHQI4MnG67qz2 by CatDragon@mastodon.world
2023-03-01T13:43:37Z
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@magdalen @joannarifkin where I am in Maine they still stamp the books.
(DIR) Post #ATCnyFoYGU0KM88h7Y by AnneTheWriter1@universeodon.com
2023-03-01T04:32:28Z
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@joannarifkin #Libraries are awesome! #PublicLibraries #PublicLibrary #Library
(DIR) Post #ATCp3jkOzm4xtP1yRU by bhawthorne@infosec.exchange
2023-03-02T13:02:20Z
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@CatDragon @magdalen @joannarifkin Where I am in Massachusetts, we don’t even have library cards. The librarian knows everyone in town and just writes down your name and writes the due date when you take out a book. When we first moved into town 20 years ago, the library was one of our first stops to get library cards for us and the kids. The librarian said we didn’t need cards, and proceeded to tell us our names and which house we had moved into.Small town (pop. about 600) life is very different.
(DIR) Post #ATGXw5RyBIQSL0C8K8 by tyil@fedi.tyil.nl
2023-03-04T08:09:19.078Z
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@joannarifkin@ecoevo.social While I'd agree that public libraries are good, I genuinely wonder what their added benefit is in today's society. Whenever I read books, I do so via my ereader, not physical stacks of paper, and last I checked, public libraries don't really offer ereaders or ebooks that you can take home. There's also no public computers without vast amounts of tracking software anymore.What does the library offer that a regular person would desire?
(DIR) Post #ATGYxqXIhaUecG5hwm by modpod@blob.cat
2023-03-04T08:20:52.383376Z
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@tyil @joannarifkin a place for people to read books.or find books they may not have ever thought of, finding them by intuition, not a search engine.or go ask about a book for a certain type of thing. (this is the job of the librarian, and the collections in libraries are both well known to those who work there, but they are curated.)read books you can't afford, but would perhaps like to buy some day.read books you can't afford, but want to read.or just to go read books on paper, some people are into that.or go meet other people that like reading. (some people are into that, too.)or go research rare books in the rare book room,or go look up old county records on microfiche, digitized or not.or go sit somewhere quiet that's not at home, and read books you've no intention of finishing, but just want to dig into briefly for a time, or find one to take home that you were previously unsure of.with the exception of a very small portion of the last statement, you can't do any of these things at home the same way a library offers.
(DIR) Post #ATZjlWpz4LfWfxb78C by magdalen@mastodon.wellperns.com
2023-03-02T19:14:46Z
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@bhawthorne @CatDragon @joannarifkin PS: My town only has about 3,000 people in it. But the County runs the libraries.
(DIR) Post #ATZjlXcCB6EX5U9cHI by bhawthorne@infosec.exchange
2023-03-02T20:01:02Z
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@magdalen @CatDragon @joannarifkin The legislators in Boston decided a few decades ago that we didn’t need county governments in the rural part of the state so they abolished them as an unnecessary level of government, and proceeded to leave everything the counties had done to the little towns of 600 people. Needless to say, this was not a success, and we are still picking up the pieces. We don’t even have the staff to apply for state grants that could pay for some of the things the counties did, so the net result was to divert more funds from small towns to the big cities.
(DIR) Post #ATZjlY6gLkcUc2PxnU by CatDragon@mastodon.world
2023-03-13T14:21:23Z
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@bhawthorne @magdalen @joannarifkin I’m fairly certain that many small town grants are written by a volunteer named Agnes who is 200 years old and a retired college professor.Dig deep enough and every small town keeps running because of an Agnes.
(DIR) Post #ATZk4EJq91CykBTp4q by bhawthorne@infosec.exchange
2023-03-13T14:24:46Z
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@CatDragon @magdalen @joannarifkin Unfortunately, our Agnes was named Arvilla, and she passed away 15 years ago. We’ve been struggling to make do with an assortment of other 200-year old retired college professors, but it takes too many of them to make up an Agnes.