I worked at a library in college. It was amazing. Truly one of my favorite jobs I've had. Libraries are legitimately one of the best things about modern society. Go support your local library folks!!
The library where my wife works is having a Black Friday sale.
Submitted 11 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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newtraditionalists@kbin.social 11 months ago
jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
If libraries were pitched as a new idea in this political climate, they would be called communist and the idea would never get off the ground.
pillars_in_the_trees@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I imagine it would be prevented under piracy laws.
I_Has_A_Hat@startrek.website 11 months ago
I wish I could. Sadly my local library has been taken over by homeless people doing drugs.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can borrow films at libraries?!
Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Libraries are amazing! They have books, movies, magazines, study rooms, computers with internet! Some have makers spaces. There could be a 3d-printer to use, sewing machines, other tools and items! And then there’s the classes and events the library holds. A reading club, craft activities, kids groups, read-alouds, theme nights.And more! Libraries can connect you to services and legal help.
Libraries are just a physical format of Google. They lead you to the information and things you need if you just ask :)
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You absolutely can, yes. Some even have streaming movies.
snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Yeah I get the kanopy streaming service through my local library. It’s awesome.
moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
At my local library, you can borrow wii games!
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The teen room at my wife’s library has a PS4 and an XBox (not sure which one) for teens to play as long as they want. The TV it’s on is huge. The game library isn’t massive, but it’s respectable.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Films, console games, power tools, board games, recreation rooms, 3D printer, sowing machines…
ares35@kbin.social 11 months ago
with a 'no late-fees' policy, truly is '100% off' (...your first 'purchase' only, probably)
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My wife’s library only charges a fee if you never bring it back. No late fees.
moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I’d be worried that people would not return books and then point to this when they get late fees.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s worked out fine so far.
moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Good for you!
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was also 100% off for the Wolf of Wall Street.
Just saying.
LukeMedia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Best scene for sure
NotSpez@lemm.ee 11 months ago
There she is
FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fourth Wing
Goddamn it now I remember about that shitty Pern+Hunger Games knockoff.
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 11 months ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Like it or not, it was a top national fiction bestseller.
I mean I think the Hunger Games books were shitty too. At least the bits and pieces I caught from my wife listening to the audiobooks.
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I heard all the hype, so I read it. I now don’t understand the hype. It has three main elements:
Dragons
Magic School
Romance/light erotica
It doesn’t do any of those things particularly well. There’s nothing interesting or particularly original about the dragons or magic school stories. The romance is super cringe:
spoiler
the unpopular girl falls for the school’s “bad boy”. In a “shocking twist”, he falls for her too. The romance is completely shallow and goes from “I’m attracted to you but we can’t be together” to “we’re soul bonded and will be together forever” in the span of a few in-story days. Again, super cringe and hardly believable, even considering these students are all late teens to early twenties. Yes, the least believable part in a book about magical flying reptiles is the romance.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Careful… Publishers can be real cranky when libraries out maneuver them.
gvsteve@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If your kids keep asking for every thing they see at every store, and you’re tired of telling them no most of the time, take them to the library and say YES YES YES YOU CAN HAVE EVERYTHING YOU WANT!!!
moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
my mom tried this on me when I was little, and then said no when I wanted to check out with ~10 books, I was so mad
theneverfox@pawb.social 11 months ago
This is the one area where my mom really did great. Every week she’d rent 3-5 new books from the sci-fi section, I literally read 6 floor to ceiling shelves of books between 4-9th grade. I literally read or discarded every commonly released sci-fi book up to that point… It might’ve ruined my eyes, but it opened my mind
(not like she was a bad mom, she had lots of love but terrible advice…)
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wish I could upvote this more than once.
key@lemmy.keychat.org 11 months ago
And then they have a meltdown after deciding all they want is one random-ass potted plant.