Public libraries - Books and/or hobos

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What do you think of public libraries in general?

Good things about them:
- can be a community anchor
- could have rare, non-online stuff to research for autists and historians
- might have a movie worth watching
- occasional book sales
- something built with tax money that you can actually use

Bad things:
- magnet for homeless
- selection is often shit (if nothing else at that branch)
- useless for new releases
- cycle out books at an alarming rate, usually at the whims of woke librarian hires
- a lot of it is rendered irrelevant by Internet access

There was some /lit/ thread a while back that pointed out that public libraries aren't that great and to just buy or pirate your books.

Also a thread to talk about how interesting/cool/bad your local library is
 
For some reason the library I went to as a child had VHS tapes you could rent too and there was an old 70s movie there about a man who does drugs and grows a turkey head and starts drinking human blood.
 
It may be just me but that comment on woke librarians hit a mark. More and more I'm seeing those types wanting to or actively becoming librarians and it raises a few alarms within me. Their fucking with the libraries and making it an unpopular spot will only hasten the destruction of the thing they claim to love. Not to mention these types will fight FOR things like trans reading hour which...is NOT a good look considering the current social mood. And then there's a ton of other things like their hypocritical banning of 'problematic' books as well as their shit work ethic and the like. In short, it's not looking great for libraries.

I would cackle in glee to see libraries privatized, it's only a matter of time and they're only going to help speed things along while they fail to understand why they were a significant accelerant to that end.
 
Haven’t been to my local library in YEARS, but last time I went there was a textbook pedo-looking guy eye-raping models in thongs and zoomed in on asses on one of the computers in the middle of the lobby area next to the young adult section. You can’t witness that shit at Barnes and Noble that’s for sure.
 
There's a hell of a lot of "Mahmoud has two daddies" and stealth trans shit in the preschool section of my local library. It won't always be obvious from the cover, title or blurbs, either - it's just wedged in there. Hell, we got one that was about the different jobs that moms can have and I shit you not, there was a part about how mommy was a "dancer".

That's in addition to the books with the blatant gay, trans, pedophile agenda. Shit's fucking wild. Luckily they've mostly contained that sort of outright insanity to the "New Emotions and Experiences" section for now.
 
Besides being hobo masturbatoriums, sharps disposals, and staff trained in the use of Narcan, public libraries offer such amenities as LGBTQ+ literature for the developing mind - often of an explicit nature. And we can't forget all the women who would be unemployed if they hadn't got a PhD in Library Science. This requirement for 14 years of study to shelve books is a sign that we live in a progressive utopia, and makes our libraries an essential pillar in keeping university professors and especially administrators employed. Where would be be if our tax dollars weren't spent teaching impressionable young people about the dangers of white (barf!) supremacy and the joys of gender transition surgery?

Truly we are the most enlightened society on Earth.

Shitposting aside, if you find a book you like at the library you may as well pop it in a booster bag and take it, because it will be trashed to make room for woke shit. My local library reduced the size of their sections on practical arts education (sketching, painting, ceramics) to make room for a new computer lab that will only be a day shelter for bums.
 
In Australia, Australian authors are compensated annually by a government fund each time their works are borrowed from public libraries; it's helped fund writers' works inbetween releases. Unfortunately, this does not extend to digital works borrowed from public libraries.
 
I really, really want to like the library. It's massive and close by, the architecture is neat.

It's infested with homeless, the bathrooms are war zones. You can't leave anything unattended even for a split second because young gang kids do laps looking for shit to steal. All the books I've ever wanted to read were always, always on loan with a months long wait list.

Also the broke brained woke brains basically encourage the hobos. They basically allow bringing in weapons and open liquor because searching bum packs is ~discrimination~. So I don't care what happens to libraries, as a tax payer my enjoyment of them is clearly secondary to their use as a flop house and pit latrine by degenerates.
 
It depends on where you live. Some don't have a homeless problem, and if there's an infestation of woke books, you might not even notice it unless you look for it.

On the rare occasion I do go in one, I'll usually browse, take pictures of the covers with my phone, and pirate the books at Library Genesis.
 
From The Uncanny Valley said:
I have 3 library cards. I was gonna get one for the next state over but that apparently costs money the fuck
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The PLAC card (Indiana's card that's good anywhere in the state) is like that, I think it's like $70 a year or something like that.

IndyPL is a good library system. If there's something I want to check out, I can get it transferred from another branch to the one near me pretty quickly.
 
I used to use our local library a lot when I was homeless, mostly read comic books anthologies and almanacs though. Our library has about four floors so there’s plenty of space and it even has a huge courtyard. At the time when I used it I never saw a whole lot of homeless people there other than myself, a friend and one other guy I kind of knew so at the time I don’t suppose we had a real homeless issue. At least not one that I saw.

For me it was the perfect place to indulge my passion for people watching and due to its location I was only ever a few steps away from all the other good spots. The library I feel is one of the few places a person will relax their posture in public, the quiet atmosphere and general low visibility among the shelves gives one the false impression of being alone and this can in turn yield interesting results.
 
I used to love libraries until they became a local melting pot for junkies to not get kicked out of, even when defecating in the halls. The only good thing is at the door pick up for holds so I can avoid walking into a miasma of heroin, crack, and shit. I never really care who is using the library unless it's these fucks. A bit of powerleveling here, I'm ready for seatbelts
I think my libraries are trying to self destruct, in the past few years they've gotten rid of with fees. I know a lot of other places do this, but the libraries here don't kick individuals out unless there's active violence going on. A small bum fight is generally fine on the premises. They also got rid of the program where they sell old books. Libraries have turned into halfway houses for junkies. Anyone can go there to get food/water/basic necessities and stay there from open to close and using drugs as long as they're not stabbing someone. They even have resources to get connected to social workers and the revolving door of addiction services. All the while libraries have been shutting down even before covid. Woke idiots have ruined libraries.
 
Librarians? Don't get me started on librarians, those guys are jerks, they say they are for the free market but are working in a state funded institutions, talk about being a hypocrite, I also heard they were pedophiles and they don't understand economics and roads, geez, librarians hate roads, never seen a librarian drive a car, they always ride their bikes or walk.
 
A point of positivity about the one near me is that it has 3d printers that anyone can use. So, for example, if you have a DIY project of making child-proof locks for cabinets, you can go to the library with your design and save some money just by having it printed for free.

A downside of the library is that it bleeds tax dollars into a larger platform of ebooks and audiobooks which limits how many people can check out a certain title. If too many people check out a popular title, even if all of those people are very far away from you and there's no physical copy, you'll be excluded from checking out what you want. All the while, the people who are responsible for libraries are typically older, lefty, and dismissive of technology, so there would never be any real examination of this problem because "durr, it's just ebooks!"
 
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