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Post by Patrick on Feb 20, 2010 11:24:30 GMT
I love our local library - I can search the county's resources on their website, and thanks to a policy of accepting donated books they have a fabulously eclectic and interesting mix of books - unlike the place I used to live in where you had to scrape the cobwebs off to find out what you were reading.
This book donation might be having a detrimental effect on the Biography department though - I was looking through yesterday looking perhaps for Denis Healey or Jim Callaghan, or some other 'Earthy' political tome. I found Edna Healey - and they had Three Les Dennis biogs and even Halle Berry! Plus some other 'celeb' books that you wouldn't really don't want to know about!
I think it's back to searching their website!
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Post by everso on Feb 22, 2010 0:41:24 GMT
Our library in Chelmsford is fab. Are you able to access your library details on your home computer? I can and I'm able to renew on line if I can't be arsed to go down to the library to do it.
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Post by Patrick on Feb 22, 2010 0:50:39 GMT
Yup! Very useful for renewing stuff, and the fact that they have catalogued every single book they have in the whole county online - and all the stuff in storage/reserve stock - you can order it and have it at the local for collection in a couple of days is brilliant. You would not believe the quality of some of the books I've had - First editions worth around £300!! Beautiful books - but stuffed away just because they're not popular any more.
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Post by everso on Feb 22, 2010 0:59:27 GMT
I also get the audio books for my auntie-who's-blind. She gets through them at a rate of knots.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Feb 22, 2010 21:11:13 GMT
Haven't borrowed a book from a library for many years, you are under presure to read it and return it in a certain time frame...I have books that I have never read even though I've owned 'em for several months (some even a few years). I will get around to them eventually, but in my own time.
AH
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Feb 22, 2010 22:27:34 GMT
I still have two books somewhere at my mother's which were due back at the library in 1979.
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Post by everso on Feb 22, 2010 23:22:12 GMT
Ha! That's nothing. I still have the book "Reach For The Sky" (the story of Douglas Bader) that I borrowed from my senior school library in 1965. At least I think I still have it - it's probably in the attic.
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Post by everso on Feb 22, 2010 23:23:22 GMT
Haven't borrowed a book from a library for many years, you are under presure to read it and return it in a certain time frame...I have books that I have never read even though I've owned 'em for several months (some even a few years). I will get around to them eventually, but in my own time. AH Yeah. I had to fork out £4.50 last week because I was a week overdue with three books. I mean £1.50 per week!! That's harsh. |
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Post by riotgrrl on Feb 23, 2010 11:01:18 GMT
I'm not keen on library books.
I hate when you get them home and the pages have things stuck on them.
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Post by aubrey on Feb 23, 2010 16:38:50 GMT
LIke when you buy a mag from the market and the centre pages are stuck together.
Really, it's rare that you get library books like that, Riot.
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Post by aubrey on Feb 23, 2010 16:45:35 GMT
At one time, Lambeth had a policy of not selling off books they didn't want any more, but destroying them. So I heard, anyway (I wouldn't put it past them, though).
It is wonderful that you can get just about everuything you want from a library, but not wonderful that you have to know what you want, and order it. If you don't know, and just want to browse, there hardly seem to be any books on the shelves these days; the Library in Ladbroke Grove that I used to go to a lot (I worked near there) had a refurbishment that meant that it had about half as many books as before on show; and in the main Kensington Library, a refurbishment meant that a lot of the shelves were only half full, and some only had a couple of books on them.
I used to find that much of the fun of a library was wandering about and grabbing something that looked interesting; otherwise you're just guided by knowing what books are likely to be in the stacks, which means just following the minority of books that are reviewed, or maybe finding out about them in another way. The rest will just be forgotten.
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Post by jean on Feb 23, 2010 22:20:23 GMT
At one time, Lambeth had a policy of not selling off books they didn't want any more, but destroying them. So I heard, anyway (I wouldn't put it past them, though). Well you know why, don't you? If they gave them away, the librarians would just order all the books they wanted themselves, and then withdraw them from stock and take them home. |
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Post by aubrey on Feb 24, 2010 16:09:09 GMT
But why does no other Library worry about that? At least, not to the extent of burning books.
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Post by housesparrow on Feb 24, 2010 16:26:53 GMT
I'm not keen on library books. I hate when you get them home and the pages have things stuck on them. My father was a bit put out when he got home with a library book and found a rasher of bacon had been left inside, presumably as a bookmark. But that was many years ago. The books from our library are clean enough - they seem to sell them off quite frequently in very good condition and it seems a shame, though they don't have much space. |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Feb 24, 2010 16:41:22 GMT
My father was a bit put out when he got home with a library book and found a rasher of bacon had been left inside, presumably as a bookmark. Can anybody top that as "anecdote of the day"? I think not.  Pure, 100% win!  AH |
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Post by Weyland on Feb 24, 2010 17:02:06 GMT
My father was a bit put out when he got home with a library book and found a rasher of bacon had been left inside, presumably as a bookmark. Can anybody top that as "anecdote of the day"? I think not. Pure, 100% win! AH Makes one wonder -- that page must have been really interesting. But I dare not speculate, at least not before the dreaded Watershed. Was it cooked? Rindless? Smoked? Crispy? |
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Post by Weyland on Feb 24, 2010 17:05:48 GMT
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Post by everso on Feb 24, 2010 19:58:16 GMT
EXCREMENT? They found excrement??
Godalmighty! I've heard of crappy books, but really...
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