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i feel like everyone should utilize the library. your tax dollars pay for it, and they have a ton of resources.
some libraries have really cool stuff you can check out. for instance, when my wife and i went to San Francisco a few years ago to visit her brother, we went to the SF Public Library, and you could check out vinyl. that alone convinced my BiL to get a library card.
i use for books, CDs, audiobooks, new yorker articles.
who among us owns a library card? and what cool stuff does your library offer?
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Having vinyl records at a library seems like a tremendous waste of tax dollars. They’re taxing everyone including poor people to provide a product that only a few relatively wealthy hobbyists will use.
But yes I have a card at each of the surrounding counties’ libraries as well as the Enoch Pratt library in Baltimore city.
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JuanHamm wrote:
B wrote:
I spent 8 years on my local library board.
What did you get accomplished?
We approved a bunch of shit about a big expansion which included a teen center and a giant media center. We also told a bunch of book banners to fuck off.
We were an advisory board, so we didn't do much.
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We approved a bunch of shit about a big expansion which included a teen center and a giant media center. We also told a bunch of book banners to fuck off.
We were an advisory board, so we didn't do much.
What books were they trying to ban? Also congratulations on learning how to read - that's actually quite an accomplishment in America.
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I don’t. I took both the girls to get one when they were younger but didn’t get one for myself. My reading pile is large enough as it is without adding books I have to take back somewhere when I’m finished.
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Joined: Wed December 19, 2012 9:53 pm Posts: 22550 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA
JuanHamm wrote:
B wrote:
JuanHamm wrote:
B wrote:
I spent 8 years on my local library board.
What did you get accomplished?
We approved a bunch of shit about a big expansion which included a teen center and a giant media center. We also told a bunch of book banners to fuck off.
We were an advisory board, so we didn't do much.
What books were they trying to ban? Also congratulations on learning how to read - that's actually quite an accomplishment in America.
Some Liberal who would never normally want a book removed from the library wanted it removed because there's a page where a teddy bear spanks the doll and that's misogynistic.
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i saw a story yesterday on cbs sunday morning about libraries..really interesting..the last library is set foot in was the nyc one on 5th ave..i had a library card as a kid and still think about the time i checked out james and the giant peach and i forgot to return it..i learned a lesson
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