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Post by Weyland on Feb 22, 2011 12:33:29 GMT
This is a Private Eye article about Sheffield Council – LibDem – denying a supporter of libraries the chance to give a talk about libraries in a library. Well worth reading. And this is a LibDems council. Cameron must be so proud. Hard to imagine what Tory councils will be doing. I just found out, after much digging, that my CC — Powys — is controlled by an alliance of Independents and LibDems, and there are very few Plaid, Tory, or Labour councillors. Could be a lot worse, I suppose. Haven't heard of any library closures yet, but then I don't read the local press. |
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Post by everso on Feb 22, 2011 17:10:08 GMT
It's unforgiveable that libraries are being closed. I've heard quite a few discussions on the radio about it. I've even read that libraries were considered too white and middle-class, but that might have been the Daily Mail trying to whip its readers into a middle-England frenzy.
Anyhow, once again, someone somewhere needs a good kicking.
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Post by rjpageuk on Feb 22, 2011 17:39:18 GMT
I dont think I have ever been in a library in my life.
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Post by everso on Feb 22, 2011 18:07:13 GMT
I dont think I have ever been in a library in my life. WHAT?  ? Good Lord! |
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Post by Weyland on Feb 22, 2011 18:19:58 GMT
I dont think I have ever been in a library in my life. Christ Alfeckinmighty! There was a time when I practically lived in the Newcastle City Reference Library, over the road from the main library. How old are you, Rob? |
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Post by motorist on Feb 22, 2011 18:35:20 GMT
I was always getting books from the library when I was a kid. sci-fi, mythology, hobby books (e.g., making dioramas, origami). It was the highlight of the week for me  |
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Post by riotgrrl on Feb 22, 2011 18:52:30 GMT
I don't like library books. Someone may have read them on the toilet (ick) and then not washed their hands or something. You never know what you're getting from them. I reckon they're all probably disease-ridden.
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Post by riotgrrl on Feb 22, 2011 18:53:04 GMT
but as the Manic Street Preachers once sang:
Libraries gave us power,
Then work came to make us free . . . . etc.
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Post by Weyland on Feb 22, 2011 19:04:01 GMT
but as the Manic Street Preachers once sang: Libraries gave us power, Then work came to make us free . . . . etc. Beautiful Welsh band. [See avatar for relevant allusion within allusion.] |
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Post by everso on Feb 22, 2011 19:32:16 GMT
I don't like library books. Someone may have read them on the toilet (ick) and then not washed their hands or something. You never know what you're getting from them. I reckon they're all probably disease-ridden. You old Howard Hughes, you!  |
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Post by bonbonlarue on Feb 22, 2011 20:11:50 GMT
I've always loved libraries...all those failed Doctor's receptionists looking down their noses at me in the Sci Fi section...tutting as I pay my fines....
...and you can get jigsaw puzzles too!
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Post by riotgrrl on Feb 22, 2011 20:12:34 GMT
but as the Manic Street Preachers once sang: Libraries gave us power, Then work came to make us free . . . . etc. Beautiful Welsh band. [See avatar for relevant allusion within allusion.]I used to love the Manics, but I find their more recent stuff a bit 'samey'. Like Radiohead, I used to love, but now I don't bother so much. I think bands have a shelf life. They should never make more than about 4 albums and then they should split up. |
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Post by Weyland on Feb 22, 2011 20:25:10 GMT
Beautiful Welsh band. [See avatar for relevant allusion within allusion.]I used to love the Manics, but I find their more recent stuff a bit 'samey'. Like Radiohead, I used to love, but now I don't bother so much. I think bands have a shelf life. They should never make more than about 4 albums and then they should split up. Don't get me wrong. I'm no big fan of the Manics. Radiohead is now as bad as Oasis always was. Sorry — it's only the painful truth. The only band with not one bad album, or even track, was Dire Straits, RIP. Correction: there was one bad track, Twisting by the Pool, and that was a piss-take anyway, I hope. |
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Post by riotgrrl on Feb 23, 2011 20:27:42 GMT
"Radiohead is . . as bad as . .etc"
I would say "Radiohead ARE . . "
We need some grammar nazi input here I think. Please.
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Post by rjpageuk on Feb 23, 2011 21:44:33 GMT
31 When I need to find something out I google it  . It seems to me libraries are pretty pointless nowadays, unfortunately. I was never into books as a kid - I spent my free time playing sports instead and was provided with the text books I needed for the courses I did throughout my life so there was never a need to go to a library. Now if I want to read a book I buy it. |
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Post by Weyland on Feb 23, 2011 22:12:59 GMT
31 When I need to find something out I google it . It seems to me libraries are pretty pointless nowadays, unfortunately. Half my age. You just don't know what you're missing, Rob. Google can never give you what libraries can. Maybe I should say could. Not to mention the many who have neither the ability nor the means to have a computer or other online device at their disposal. Closing a single library is an obscenity. |
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Post by rjpageuk on Feb 23, 2011 22:48:31 GMT
Yeah I fully understand that I dont get it. I have had similar conversations with my boss at work who loves books (maybe even in an unhealthy way). He learnt most of the things he knows from books and has an attachement to them through that and I am attached to the internet in a similar way.
I agree that for people that cannot access the internet some way of doing so is invaluable. If libraries can provide this then I can see the value in it although I would be interested in seeing statistics on how many people actually use the service.
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Post by riotgrrl on Feb 23, 2011 23:07:08 GMT
Google can never give you what libraries can. . Like scabies, influenza and other skin and respiratory infections. Salmonella, e coli, etc. etc. |
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Post by jean on Feb 24, 2011 0:12:13 GMT
When I need to find something out I google it . It seems to me libraries are pretty pointless nowadays, unfortunately. They're full of computers these days. |
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Post by Weyland on Feb 24, 2011 6:55:38 GMT
Google can never give you what libraries can Like scabies, influenza and other skin and respiratory infections. Salmonella, e coli, etc. etc. Yeah, yeah, but it's the syphilis that really feckin' got me. And that librarian denied all knowledge of it, the cow. |
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. It seems to me libraries are pretty pointless nowadays, unfortunately.