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28 January 2011, 07:09 PM
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Would you like to see them close ?
Where else would you gain access to the range of literature available at most public libraries ? Please don't say the internet.
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No
Would you like to see them close ?
Where else would you gain access to the range of literature available at most public libraries ? Please don't say the internet.
Dave
28 January 2011, 07:47 PM
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I used to use the Library for ....
Maps - now google maps does it all for me
Haynes Manuals to fix Washing Machines, etc. - all info. on Internet
I used to use it, also, to go on the Internet!!!
Cannot think why they are needed anymore in all honesty ... and as for those Library vans driving about - POINTLESS!!
Maps - now google maps does it all for me
Haynes Manuals to fix Washing Machines, etc. - all info. on Internet
I used to use it, also, to go on the Internet!!!
Cannot think why they are needed anymore in all honesty ... and as for those Library vans driving about - POINTLESS!!
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28 January 2011, 07:55 PM
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although i agree that libraries are not a frontline service so would rather see them get the bullet than police, social workers or nurses...however, what would happen to all the books? a large scale jumble sale to raise funds for the govt?!
i cant remember the last time i visited a library for myself...i have taken the kids there occassionally and i know that libraries quite often run groups for kids and the local community (well, they do my way) but how much would the country save by disposing of all libraries etc?
i cant remember the last time i visited a library for myself...i have taken the kids there occassionally and i know that libraries quite often run groups for kids and the local community (well, they do my way) but how much would the country save by disposing of all libraries etc?
28 January 2011, 08:05 PM
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I spent most of my childhood in the library. I loved it! All those lovely polished wood bookshelves, and the big old tables, and the leather upholstered chairs that stuck to your legs in the summer. The parquet flooring, the thud of the stamp in the books and the dust motes floating in the shaft of sunlight that shone through the high window. And silence.
Not like now, where it's more like a bleedin' school playground, with kids running around screaming!
Not like now, where it's more like a bleedin' school playground, with kids running around screaming!
28 January 2011, 08:56 PM
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At our local council meeting libraries were discussed and the comment was made that a lot of the rural libraries are so costly to run and not used much that it would be cheaper for the client to write a letter requesting the book required and then the council to pop put to wh smiths / local book shop and buy it and post it out to the client as it can cost £6 per book
Our local ones only open 18 hours a week and closes at lunchtime
Get shot of them and offer the clients cheap Internet access
Our local ones only open 18 hours a week and closes at lunchtime
Get shot of them and offer the clients cheap Internet access
28 January 2011, 09:29 PM
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Disaster – cultural and intellectual vandalism at its worst – my ex local library in North Kensington was opened by Mark Twain – now closing!
Most European countries have local community centres (inc Library's) in every town/village, we have ***** on the internet and library’s turning into bars.
we are governed by people who know the price of everything but the value of nothing
Most European countries have local community centres (inc Library's) in every town/village, we have ***** on the internet and library’s turning into bars.
we are governed by people who know the price of everything but the value of nothing
28 January 2011, 09:41 PM
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I spent most of my childhood in the library. I loved it! All those lovely polished wood bookshelves, and the big old tables, and the leather upholstered chairs that stuck to your legs in the summer. The parquet flooring, the thud of the stamp in the books and the dust motes floating in the shaft of sunlight that shone through the high window. And silence.
Not like now, where it's more like a bleedin' school playground, with kids running around screaming!
Not like now, where it's more like a bleedin' school playground, with kids running around screaming!
28 January 2011, 10:00 PM
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I think it's important for the future of democracy that knowledge is free to be disseminated throughout society.
Yes the internet changes things a bit but otoh I think there is value in having actual 'places' if only for the way they help bind people together into a society; interweb breeds alienation and mostly facile entertainment (unlike the haven of intellectualism which is NSR
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Of course if all that matters is pure commerce/consumerism and house prices then scrap them. Seems like the mark of civilisation to have institutions such as libraries and museums though. It's bad enough the decline into low culture with things such as X-factor in this country.
Yes the internet changes things a bit but otoh I think there is value in having actual 'places' if only for the way they help bind people together into a society; interweb breeds alienation and mostly facile entertainment (unlike the haven of intellectualism which is NSR
.Of course if all that matters is pure commerce/consumerism and house prices then scrap them. Seems like the mark of civilisation to have institutions such as libraries and museums though. It's bad enough the decline into low culture with things such as X-factor in this country.
29 January 2011, 12:59 PM
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I used to use the Library for ....
Maps - now google maps does it all for me
Haynes Manuals to fix Washing Machines, etc. - all info. on Internet
I used to use it, also, to go on the Internet!!!
Cannot think why they are needed anymore in all honesty ... and as for those Library vans driving about - POINTLESS!!
Maps - now google maps does it all for me
Haynes Manuals to fix Washing Machines, etc. - all info. on Internet
I used to use it, also, to go on the Internet!!!
Cannot think why they are needed anymore in all honesty ... and as for those Library vans driving about - POINTLESS!!
Mind you, if you feel that the gross lowering of standards of education by your heroes makes books unusable for so many then your stance is understandable despite being crass!
Les
29 January 2011, 04:38 PM
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29 January 2011, 04:41 PM
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It would be a shame for libraries to be shut down - yet another nail in the coffin of a town centre - what would go in its place??? Another empty building.
29 January 2011, 05:06 PM
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29 January 2011, 05:09 PM
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I used to use the Library for ....
Maps - now google maps does it all for me
Haynes Manuals to fix Washing Machines, etc. - all info. on Internet
I used to use it, also, to go on the Internet!!!
Cannot think why they are needed anymore in all honesty ... and as for those Library vans driving about - POINTLESS!!
Maps - now google maps does it all for me
Haynes Manuals to fix Washing Machines, etc. - all info. on Internet
I used to use it, also, to go on the Internet!!!
Cannot think why they are needed anymore in all honesty ... and as for those Library vans driving about - POINTLESS!!
29 January 2011, 07:23 PM
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I do/did my own Servicing and yes, I do believe that you should buy the car you want - NOT buy an unsuitable one and have to change it in a desperate attempt to get what you should have bought off the shelf!!!
