I live in rural Japan. I wanted to get out of the house and find an actual decent chair and desk to draw with. I discovered there is a local public library. I went today only to discover the library is closed as part of a two week rehaul of their system. I am so disappointed. They will be open next week tho
There's this meme on german internet of a sign in a bookstore that reads: 'Our customers can use the toilets. Customers of Amazon can use Amazon's toilets.'
Vernor Vinge wrote a great sci-fi novel "Rainbows End" that deals with art and libraries and books existing in a modern, commercial, digitalized world. Plus it has a great story, highly recommend. Vinge is brilliant :)
This is kind of already happening in my local libraries. You have to pay 2 euros for every medium you rent and you can only rent the medium a week with no extension. So you can't take the books on a vacation or something. That's why I buy second hand books and DVD's nowadays.
Woah!! My library here in the US (Burbank, CA) got rid of late fees a few years back, and you can check out for 21 days! What's the British equivalent of nickel and dime-ing 😂
I admit that I haven't really set foot in a library for the purpose of checking out books since probably Highschool. . .but I was the kid that checked out 10+ at a time and was very angry when my eighth grade class didn't get a weekly library period even though the school library was small. . .since we weren't allow to wander the halls and HAD to be in the lunch room/outside over the lunch period. That's probably why I just buy all my books. . .most of what I liked I end up wanting to read again, so it sits on my shelf.
Fr! My old library can rent out power tools, laptops, sound booths, software, just about anything! Co-housing communities do this too, with items you only need sometimes. Even just a couple drills shared among your neighbors saves everyone a lot of money 😊
I admit I haven't really gone to the library physically since the lockdown but I use their digital services almost daily. Borrowing books and movies on my phone,laptop and tv.
If we didn't have them already, and tried to ask for libraries now, McCarthy and Palmer would rise up from hell and FBI us into prison for being Chinese/ communists/Bolsheviks/spies/anarchists/Russian
Please swear on this stack of hypothetical finished copies of Doors of Stone and Winds of Winter that you'll take this down before someone at Amazon sees this and is legitimately inspired
And your subscription helps Jeffrey Bezos take another celebrity on another pointless joyride to almost space. And nothing else, no social change or anything. Aren't you excited?
I mean digital libraries and archives like the “Internet Archive” are being threatened right now. It would be absolutely devastating for software preservation in particular if it were to be shut down.
I can definitely see this happening. Given the current political movement against public schools, its surprising libraries are even still around: they are staffed and administrated by a class of people typically seen as running counter to the American heartland, traditionally provide employment to women (origins of this are a bit problematic, though), aid the homeless/those without reliable access to books and internet, and are ultimately reliant on tax dollars as a means to redistribute knowledge. I'd say 2029 seems like a pretty good estimate as to when most of them will die off.
The sexual perversion of "drag queen story hour" and promoting homosexuality to children runs counter to the morality of anyone, regardless of where they live. Understand that it WILL be ended. Most homeless people aren't in libraries to read, use the computers, or take advantage of any other resources there. They sleep, leave the bathrooms filthy, and harass people for money. How do I know that? Because I've seen it over and over in Chicago.
This will probably not be a popular take. I buy every book I want as I'm not a fan of my local library. It has a bias towards new books and is constantly selling books that are no longer in fashion. It bothers me that classic series might only have one title if I'm lucky. This is the same knock I have on bookstores as well. I went to a Barnes and Noble last year and they had nothing from Asimov, Anne McCarfrey, Terry Brooks or my childhood favorite, Piers Anthony. Stores need to sell what's hot, but libraries should carry books with gravitas that are staples of every genre or they just become another part of pop culture, trying too hard to be cool while devaluing themselves as an essential community resource.
As a library staff person, I think this is a very valid take. I am not in charge of when books are withdrawn out of our collection, but I have witness the very trend you're talking about. To my knowledge, a book being chosen to be withdrawn from a library's collection heavily has to do with the frequency of it being checked out. At my library system, books are often withdrawn if they are not checked out once in a five year period. Yes, I know that this too stacks the deck in favor of the "new" and the "popular." It is not a perfect system. In light of that, one way to help sustain the oldies but goodies is to literally just check them out or encourage others to do so. In my library, even checking a book out once and immediately returning it would sustain its life on our shelves for five years, giving other people the opportunity to discover it. Oftentimes when we withdraw books other copies of the same book exist within our library system at other locations, and sometimes if the prospective book to be withdrawn is the very last copy in our system it might be granted some leniency depending on what it is. The fact of the matter is that space is limited in most libraries, especially small public libraries with limited resources, and the books within them are shaped by the habits of the patrons, for better or worse.
I have bypassed this problem by having my own library at home. Used books often cost next to nothing on ebay with free shipping on most of them. My library is right in my own house, and it only has books that I like.
Good video, but to be fair libraries aren't free. Average operating cost per library is ~$765,000 (90% due to staffing expenses). About 90% of funding is from taxes. Although it wouldn't have the environment and experience of a physical location... a digital only library would have very minimal operating costs
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This reminded me that I should really hang out at my town library more
I live in rural Japan. I wanted to get out of the house and find an actual decent chair and desk to draw with. I discovered there is a local public library. I went today only to discover the library is closed as part of a two week rehaul of their system. I am so disappointed. They will be open next week tho
Fair point my man, I'm going to go there soon
As an actual librarian, I appreciate this video
There's this meme on german internet of a sign in a bookstore that reads: 'Our customers can use the toilets. Customers of Amazon can use Amazon's toilets.'
HA! love that
This makes me want to go out and hug my library.
Vernor Vinge wrote a great sci-fi novel "Rainbows End" that deals with art and libraries and books existing in a modern, commercial, digitalized world. Plus it has a great story, highly recommend. Vinge is brilliant :)
That sounds interesting; thanks for the rec!
Thank you! Borrowed it from my library just now 😊
Corporate greed my beloved
This is kind of already happening in my local libraries. You have to pay 2 euros for every medium you rent and you can only rent the medium a week with no extension. So you can't take the books on a vacation or something. That's why I buy second hand books and DVD's nowadays.
Wow, seriously? I'm sorry to hear that's happening.
Woah!! My library here in the US (Burbank, CA) got rid of late fees a few years back, and you can check out for 21 days!
What's the British equivalent of nickel and dime-ing 😂
So it’s blockbuster? That’s sad
I don't think this will happen either. Because people like us won't let it.
I admit that I haven't really set foot in a library for the purpose of checking out books since probably Highschool. . .but I was the kid that checked out 10+ at a time and was very angry when my eighth grade class didn't get a weekly library period even though the school library was small. . .since we weren't allow to wander the halls and HAD to be in the lunch room/outside over the lunch period. That's probably why I just buy all my books. . .most of what I liked I end up wanting to read again, so it sits on my shelf.
You should totally check out the idea of library economies. They sound sick imo.
Fr! My old library can rent out power tools, laptops, sound booths, software, just about anything! Co-housing communities do this too, with items you only need sometimes. Even just a couple drills shared among your neighbors saves everyone a lot of money 😊
Painfully true. So painfully true.
I admit I haven't really gone to the library physically since the lockdown but I use their digital services almost daily. Borrowing books and movies on my phone,laptop and tv.
loved the asoue reference
Wow, I love your channel. You always make me laugh with your witty humor.
Thank you so much!
Reminds me of the bit Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry did about privatizing the police.
My local library is becoming privatized, so that's something
cannot believe i watched this video and scrolled down to see only 19 comments. this'll be viral in a week i swear
Here's hoping! That would be awesome.
Unfortunately this channel is still highly underrated in my opinion
You know. Jail is just a mediocre threath. Sometimes a knife is your friend.
...by that i mean pointed at him, and be carefull! Knives are sharp.
Even though you own everything, you can still own everything plus one
I love this one soooo much! ❤
The only reason libraries are allowed to exist is because they predate this current crop of billionaires
If we didn't have them already, and tried to ask for libraries now, McCarthy and Palmer would rise up from hell and FBI us into prison for being Chinese/ communists/Bolsheviks/spies/anarchists/Russian
We should start a new movement, PGTOW (Patrons Go Their Own Way)
Please swear on this stack of hypothetical finished copies of Doors of Stone and Winds of Winter that you'll take this down before someone at Amazon sees this and is legitimately inspired
And your subscription helps Jeffrey Bezos take another celebrity on another pointless joyride to almost space. And nothing else, no social change or anything. Aren't you excited?
I mean digital libraries and archives like the “Internet Archive” are being threatened right now. It would be absolutely devastating for software preservation in particular if it were to be shut down.
I don't actually think this is going to happen, mostly I just thought it would make a funny video. -George Orwell
I was typing a comment about how this actually seemed plausible until the video said so…
I can definitely see this happening. Given the current political movement against public schools, its surprising libraries are even still around: they are staffed and administrated by a class of people typically seen as running counter to the American heartland, traditionally provide employment to women (origins of this are a bit problematic, though), aid the homeless/those without reliable access to books and internet, and are ultimately reliant on tax dollars as a means to redistribute knowledge. I'd say 2029 seems like a pretty good estimate as to when most of them will die off.
The sexual perversion of "drag queen story hour" and promoting homosexuality to children runs counter to the morality of anyone, regardless of where they live. Understand that it WILL be ended. Most homeless people aren't in libraries to read, use the computers, or take advantage of any other resources there. They sleep, leave the bathrooms filthy, and harass people for money. How do I know that? Because I've seen it over and over in Chicago.
Don´t give them ideas
Dont even know if they have a library round here tbh
😆 but also 😢
This is why I like One Piece
This will probably not be a popular take. I buy every book I want as I'm not a fan of my local library. It has a bias towards new books and is constantly selling books that are no longer in fashion. It bothers me that classic series might only have one title if I'm lucky. This is the same knock I have on bookstores as well. I went to a Barnes and Noble last year and they had nothing from Asimov, Anne McCarfrey, Terry Brooks or my childhood favorite, Piers Anthony. Stores need to sell what's hot, but libraries should carry books with gravitas that are staples of every genre or they just become another part of pop culture, trying too hard to be cool while devaluing themselves as an essential community resource.
As a library staff person, I think this is a very valid take. I am not in charge of when books are withdrawn out of our collection, but I have witness the very trend you're talking about. To my knowledge, a book being chosen to be withdrawn from a library's collection heavily has to do with the frequency of it being checked out. At my library system, books are often withdrawn if they are not checked out once in a five year period. Yes, I know that this too stacks the deck in favor of the "new" and the "popular." It is not a perfect system. In light of that, one way to help sustain the oldies but goodies is to literally just check them out or encourage others to do so. In my library, even checking a book out once and immediately returning it would sustain its life on our shelves for five years, giving other people the opportunity to discover it. Oftentimes when we withdraw books other copies of the same book exist within our library system at other locations, and sometimes if the prospective book to be withdrawn is the very last copy in our system it might be granted some leniency depending on what it is. The fact of the matter is that space is limited in most libraries, especially small public libraries with limited resources, and the books within them are shaped by the habits of the patrons, for better or worse.
I would be destroying capitalism within the week fr.
I have bypassed this problem by having my own library at home. Used books often cost next to nothing on ebay with free shipping on most of them. My library is right in my own house, and it only has books that I like.
yikes
how did no one comment about his "ANAL FAM" shirt
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Good video, but to be fair libraries aren't free.
Average operating cost per library is ~$765,000 (90% due to staffing expenses).
About 90% of funding is from taxes.
Although it wouldn't have the environment and experience of a physical location... a digital only library would have very minimal operating costs