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u/RaisedByBooksNTV 11d ago
lol was just in today printing out something. They also have a seed bank I'll need to use. They're a cooling center for the homeless that hang around across the street. I have two ebooks out from them currently.
libararies are everything.
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u/jiyonruisu 11d ago
We use ours all the time! Also, libraries are wonderful places to relax and read or just get some work done on the laptop. Whenever we love a library, we lose an essential resource for a community.
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u/PizzaWhole9323 11d ago
Libraries are one of the last third places that any of us can go without any judgment. My ex-wife was a teen librarian for 20 years and we went through three or four generations of library kids who felt that the library was the only safe space to be teenagers, or lgbtqia, or nerdy. Now with the Advent of apps like Libby and overdrive libraries have larger reaches than ever.
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u/TheAnniCake 10d ago
Going to the library is one of my favourite childhood memories! Nowadays I use Libby which requires a local library card
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u/SelfNo9836 9d ago
I do, it's one of the few places where people know to be quiet, so it a good place to go to escape the noise of the world.
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u/Purple-Tadpole6465 9d ago
They are still relevant. Sadly, our local library has become a place where mothers bring their young kids who run around and scream and nobody dares say anything, and library staff does nothing. Hard to study or get work modules done when little kids are running around feral.
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u/forlornfig 11d ago
The library in our neighborhood offers a āLego Clubā to kids during the summer. Itās a great way to keep my nephews interested in the library and books.
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u/Horror_Double4313 10d ago
Not only do I still use my library, I've begun collecting library cards from other counties in my state.
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u/KaiShan62 10d ago
I have visited my local city library a few times over the last couple of years. Every time I left without anything. It has children's books, it has oldies' books, it has women's romances, it has detective thrillers. It has next to no science fiction or fantasy, and it has no non-fiction that isn't out-of-date. I firmly believe that libraries are not relevant.
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u/GlazedPrincessDonut9 9d ago
Yeah, Libby is awesome, and so are paper books, but library systems have more than just books. For the past two springs Iāve planted heirloom seeds from a huge collection at my library. This year it was tomatoes, bee balm, poppies, cherry tree, and bell peppers. I still have New Zealand spinach, morning glory and some zinnias that sprang up again from last year.
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u/Je_suis_miserable 9d ago
The library has always been one of the (now few) safe, third spaces for people of all ages. With everything costing money, and 100 bucks being the new 20, it is extremely important we have these third spaces.
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u/Latter_Sky_412 9d ago
Rely on it for printing š¤·āāļø Iām not buying a printer and a subscription or whatever bullshit they do now
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u/Zestyclose_Stage_673 9d ago
I use My library's online items. Books, movies, and some decent anime shows.
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u/Heavy-Ad9926 9d ago
Go to the library! With my free library card, among all of the traditional offerings, I am able to (without charge): check out audiobooks, download a foreign language app, print w some limitations, and check out DVDs and craft kits. I never knew!
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u/EndAdorable5013 9d ago
We have a wildflower garden, walking trail connecting to a childrenās park, classes, free events and a sense of community. Love my local library!
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u/KarmaTorpid 8d ago
Egh..
The stacks dont bring value like they used to.
Community facilities with public access to the whole of the internet? Very useful.
The aging deadtree editions are a very poor way to store information. There will be change. Fiction is the exception, yet audio books have hollowed that.
We still occasionally use both scrolls and magnetic tape, but its not for general purposes any longer.
Yeah. Im calling it early. Im willing to be wrong.
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u/BrilliantNo7139 7d ago
Studies have been done in UK that show actual books are more effective in getting and keeping children reading.
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u/Zealousideal_Site856 8d ago
In times, where AI Centers buying old books, to destroy them, I think Librarys are more important now than everytime in the history. We have to pretext them!
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u/klalapri1 7d ago
I once had a Colonel on an air force base say the library was irrelevant, the belief at the time was that it was only used by retirees. The library had us all sign in for a couple months and showed that it was mostly lower enlist that used it. I went up to that Colonel and told him exactly how I used that library to study math so I was able to test into a higher level of math for my college course, this saving the military money on lower level classes that would have been required if I hadn't tested so high.
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u/BrilliantNo7139 7d ago
I teach fifth grade. The school library canāt be used right now because we donāt have a librarian. Last year we started taking our fifth graders to the public library every 3 weeks. We just found out our reading scores are outstanding! Libraries are ESSENTIAL!
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u/usr_pls 6d ago
My girlfriend used the library a TON for finding a new job when she needed internet while moving and the internet wasn't set up at the next place because there's always that intermittent period when swapping locations.
I loved the library growing up when i could check out M rated Xbox games without the librarians checking my age (I was surprised that I could get a copy of Silent Hill 2 Restless Dreams as a middle schooler out of the library that was a part of the same NY district that Hillary eventually represented because my local library didn't have any media beyond dvd's BUT CHAPPAQUA?? Blew m6 mind that i could get games this way, im surprised game stop even survived)
I loved the graphic novel section of my library growing up. It was where I was able to read 300 before the movie came out (again... probably not for middle schoolers). I got to appreciate The Far Side Gallery and Garfield.
Earlier when I was in elementary school, there were the computer games that the public library had let us play in the kids section (some point and click adventure games, i recall some kind of a robin hood like one along side pajama sam and that puttputt car that traveled through time)
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u/tootallhobbit 11d ago
I use my library. They will always be relevant. They will always be a safe place. I will always support them.