― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link
In my experience, most of them do. I have picked up a lot of books that way.
― The Many Faces of Gordon Jump (Leon), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link
I had a guy do this to me when I worked in a charity bookshop. The bloody book was only about €6, and he just 'wanted a couple of articles' out of it. He was really insulted when I wouldn't let him 'borrow' it to take across the road to the copy shop. People are dicks.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― obi strip (sanskrit), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link
WTF??! (i work with rare books and have actually had nightmares about patrons drinking/eating at the tables)
― jo ga11ucci electrix (joseph), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― jo ga11ucci electrix (joseph), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link
yay for suburbs
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link
I enjoy going to the tall library just because it's fun to wander through the stacks. I'm particularly fond of the "reserve" floor, because those librarians (often students) have a clock that ticks away the time you have to borrow a "reserved" book. it's a very stressful floor. Like, they actually time it to the minute - the two hours that you get to take something from the reserves. "9:47 a.m. GO!" And you best be getting that book back by 11:47 a.m., because they fine you $50.00 an hour, and the hour starts the minute you failed to return the book.How do I know this? Well, you figure it out.
Anyway, I live in the "five college" area of Mass., so the local libraries are very good, and the borrowing system among the colleges/university is splendid. The colleges are very nice about letting the libraries be open to anyone. Lots of crazy, failed PhD. candidates (or so I assume)sitting in the comfy chairs at the Smith library, for instance.The private colleges have the most comfy areas for reading. I might have to write a field guide to comfy college libraries!Mount Holyoke is beyond the pale - SO comfy. I'm very fortunate to have the library wealth that I do.
And Beth Parker? I still have my CLAMS card. (Cape and Islands Library System).
― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
they may say it, but not "generally"
This is the Audubon Field Guild to North American Wildflowers. I bought it from the Chilmark Library book sale. They must have had duplicates—no way they'd get rid of the only copy of such an essential book
More essential than the Newmark or the Petersons?
― nuneb (nuneb), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― nuneb (nuneb), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link
my local branch is always fantastic.
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Haha the official answer to this would be "no" -- the person quoted here is just slipping up and mixing stuff around. Leslie meant to say "we're beyond it," but had the "it" part of the subject at the beginning of the sentence.
(The main idiomatic use of "beyond" here will always be the exasperated "it's beyond me/us" for "I can't understand/imagine it!")
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Which is a dodging answer - the question the article would seem to want to ask is "Yes, we know, but why aren't you getting rid of last year's Catherine Cookson novels, which are in a burst of popularity but will wane, instead of stuff that there will always be a steady but low demand for?"
(xpost beaten by nabisco!)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Many Faces of Gordon Jump (Leon), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link
As for "what do they do with these books?", a lot of liberries have books sales to help with the underfunding aspect.
From the horse's mouth:
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=libraryfunding&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=139034
― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― walterkranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link
except the zillions of americans that hate to read
― friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― nuneb (nuneb), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Many Faces of Gordon Jump (Leon), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― emil.y (emil.y), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― emil.y (emil.y), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link
it is an incredibly complicated balancing act and they are fucking saints
― FUCKTHISSHIT (JACKLOVE), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link
There used to be an actual Starbucks in our main library when I first moved here. It is gone now.
I don't really mind it so much in a public library, but at a university library it's a bit ridiculous. I really think there's a difference between what a public library is supposed to do (keep people who can't or won't buy books reading and thus literate and thus better citizens; give them access to information) and what a university library should do (promote deep research; archive materials). The systems need to be connected, and all, but coffee is a public library doesn't seem to be the end of the world.
― Casuistry (casuistry), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― molly mummenschanz (molly d), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Hmmm, maybe I should send a resume?
― I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― walterkranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stephen Ex (Stephen Ex), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link
oh or maybe you mean B&N. oops. I bet people do it in both places, though.
― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link
Obviously I check the local system (13 libraries including three university libraries) first when I want something, but if they don't have it, ILL isn't a first or last resort, it's the ONLY resort.
― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ray Cummings (skateboardr), Thursday, 4 January 2007 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link
So do I! I feel your pain.
― The Many Faces of Gordon Jump (Leon), Thursday, 4 January 2007 13:31 (seventeen years ago) link