>welcome to the library

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Frankly this is worse

>>9356393
Leave that library

>>9356393
>The Bone Season
What did she mean by this?

>go the library
>children running around screaming
>old man watching porn on public computer
>books have been replaced with interactive LCD monitors
>whole place smells like disinfectant and poop
>Reading is Kool posters from the 1990s festoon the walls
>roof beams sagging dangerously
>turn around 360 degrees
>leave

>>9356393
>putting Verne in the same category as Terry Pratchett

hed hurt

>>9356464
>Reading is Kool posters from the 1990s festoon the walls
these are ever present

>>9356464
>turn around 360 degrees
What? You're right back where you started.

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>>9356382
>>9356393
You think that's bad? The only real library in my city closed in February, and there's no date to open again. Hell, I don't even know if it will.
I cannot return the book I had checked out, that's how closed it is.

Feels pretty fucking miserable man.

>>9356506
>is closed in February

But anon, its April

>>9356393
>pseuds itt complain about lists they don't understand
fucking lol

>>9356464
>have no idea what festoon means
>shitpost on /lit/

>>9356393
>Americlaps appropriating Dr. Who
reeeeeeeeeee

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>>9356464
>reading is kool posters
Oh that reminds me
The best for last

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>>9356531

>>9356521
Its a bad list you pleb

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>>9356531
>>9356538
>>9356557

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>>9356557
And finally, in he mens room.

>>9356564
Must be for abos

>>9356472
Man...what year is it?

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>>9356519
I'm not talking about "closing for maintenance", I'm talking about "closing because your state is bankrupt".
You don't know how dire things are in Rio de Janeiro, my friend. Lucky you.

>get intership at Martin Luther King library in my city
>Work their for four weeks
>become friends with every member of library police before end of internship because of how much i had to talk to them
>reported 4 separate public masturbation cases
>reported 2 public deification
>caught one guy making toon porn on a library computer
>drug dealers smoking weed rolled up in 5 dollar bills in the bathrooms
>"shh be silent" posters everywhere, visitors can never shut up
>saw two old men rubbing their gums with coke in the middle of a room, noone does anything

it was hard for that not to make me racist

>>9356472
Good job. You got the joke.

>>9356585
What sort of designated people who try to climb up on a toilet and squat over it, or a hole in the floor, do you think?

>>9356597
>library police
Wut

>>9356526
Yeah, I don't know why we have such a collective hardon for that piece of shit.

>>9356617
not sure if you're trying to deceive me but this would seem to also be the custom of indians (from india not the plains)

>>9356624
i can tell your city has not embraced multiculturalism

>>9356585
>Must be for abos
The "don't stand on the toilet to shit" signs are for foreigners (asians, indians) who prefer to squat. I used to wonder why so many toilet seats had footprints on them.

>>9356464
This sounds about right. My local library (which isn't far from OP's) is like a cross between a daycare centre, a homeless shelter, and a DVD rental store. And it's as noisy as any public building you can think of. It's the last place you'd visit if you wanted somewhere quiet to read or study.

>>9356682
Wow that's wack as fuck

>>9356597
>>reported 2 public deification
Really makes you think

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>>9356464
>be Italian
>go to the library
>it's literally pic related
>place is perfectly silent even if there are lots of people
>infinite catalogue and they're willing to buy new books for you if you they have no copy of it
>tfw it costs me 10$ in taxes per year

Thanks God I'm not an ameritard.

>>9356701
>meanwhile my government is corrupt as fuck and my country has a low trust index

>>9356701
One of the reasons I hate being an ameritard. At least I can take solace in knowing that America will implode soon enough.

>>9356701
Any major american city has one that looks like this

How do we fix libraries? Get rid of the computers and free wi-fi?

>>9356688
Hey, my library has a cultist problem too. At least 1 deification and a few assorted sacrifices per week.

>>9356715
>even in these conditions living in Italy is better than living in the US
>tfw even if our government is corrupted as fuck literally no one is starving or dying in the streets
>tfw even if we've got the fucking mafia and an immigration crisis violent crimes are still at an all time low

I'll give you that US is a more powerful nation, but when it comes to the individual citizen Italy is obviously the better place to live in. It's just nicer, safer and more beautiful.
Also virtually everything around you is art of the highest caliber.

>>9356682
Where you at? Wanna hang out I have all day and evening free? When the libraries close at 5pm melbourne central food court can be ok

>>9356597
>making toon porn on a library computer
i would do that

>>9356726
Tell parents that it is not a playground

>>9356597
>reported 2 public deification
This is still illegal? Fucking outdated blasphemy laws.

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>>9356531
what the fuck
I was in Australian primary school in 2010
I can't even imagine seeing this shit back then

>>9356467
ikr. why would you put that pulpy steampunk meme-stories trash together with the legitimate master of satirical fantasy?

>>9357480
Bogdatrump ?

>>9356745
The library in the city I study at has a floor-high slide in the center. I wouldn't be able to tell anyone it's not a playground.

>>9356607
Good job. You got baited. Unless this is subtle counter-counter-bait. But in that case, this is a bait post too oops i shuldn't have told you ;^)

>>9357482
>pulpy steampunk meme-stories
Verne wrote in the 19th century

>>9357497
There is a new library in the Dockland precinct which has a playground outside
And yet still parents have their kids running around and screaming in the library
Why

>>9357519
Because most parents are shit at disciplining their children and have no respect for other people. Or as my boss once said to me "I don't even hear them yelling anymore"

>WELCOME TO THE LIBRARY
>WE'VE NO FUN OR GAMES
>WE'VE GOT EVERY BOOK YOU WANT
>HONEY WE KNOW THE NAMES
>WE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT CAN FIND
>WHAT AUTHOR YOU MAY NEED
>IF YOU KNOW THE DEWEY DECIMAL CODE
>I'LL LOOK IT UP FOR YOU NO SORRY IT'S OUT ON LOAN DO YOU WANT ME TO RESERVE A COPY FOR YOU?

>IN THE LIBRARY
>WELCOME TO THE LIBRARY

>>9356531
>victoria

>>9357486
I wonder if anyone went to the library help desk with questions?

>be an american
>go to the library to read comics
>get shot

>Be American
>Go to library
>YO WHITEY GIBE HANDOUTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHhy2Gk_xik

>>9356564
curious what ideas i would find on their website

>>9357486
600 years and STILL they haven't designed a toilet floor that can handle my semen

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>>9356617
Someone who is concerned about optimal shitting form.

>he doesn't squatty potty

>>9356382
>be american
>go to library
>blacks on computers watching boondocks and worldstar hip-hop...

>>9356589
>lives in rio de janeiro
may god have mercy on your soul

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>>9356701
that's nice. we still have some decent libraries. most pics from this thread on shitty college or small town libraries.

>>9357535
>You've got over due fe fe fe fe fees fees
>c'mon I wanna watch you be courteous to the other members, there's a waiting list for that title and everything

>>9356617
Patricians.

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>>9356382
>tfw library had a huge fire half a year ago so I don't have to return 2 books.
They're garbage tho

what kind of person would stand up after taking a shit and only then deposit the toilet paper used for wiping arse

>>9357943
Women do that

>>9357910
My small town library is quite nice

Wew, I'm glad my library is just populated with little old ladies and the shelves are only stacked with mystery and romance novels. Could be much worse, apparently.

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The library I work at is connected to a network drive of all the libraries in my city. They each have a folder dedicated to "Warnings/incidents/Bannings" and I have seriously thought about posting some of them in a library thread after blocking the names out. Of course I would be fired instantly if they found out it was me.

It's like watching cops, all the incidents are recorded since 2008, dudes threatening to kill the front desk ladies, some guy who pissed himself on the same couch seven days in a row requiring seven different warning notices, pictures of crack pipes found in the bathrooms, a guy who will stick his head out from the bottom shelf of the stacks to peek up womens skirts, some old guy who saw a what he considered an inappropriatley dressed 12 year old, loudly exclaimed "I GUESS SOMEONE HAS TO DO IT" and just punches her in the face, so much wacky shit thats hilarious to read. I was addicted to them at one point and would spend every break and lunch reading them all.

>>9358145

post that shit

There is no good reason for libraries to have WiFi and public computers. If you get rid of them you get rid of 99% of all problems in the library.

>>9358204
He just did.

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>>9356531

>the posters against this think certain clothing can only be worn by a certain gender

I guess women should only wear dresses, right? How spooked are you?

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>>9356538

>k thanks

The message doesn't even trigger me but that snarky remark at the end does.

My city has plenty of great libraries but the computer area in each one is always monopolized by niggers using Facebook or playing weak ass flash games because they're poor and can't read

>can't step outside without being assaulted by liberalism
>"love trump's hate" and signs against rayyycism, muhsoggyknees, and "islamophobia"
>featured books by black stronk wymn of color and shitty translations of foreign pop culture books
>"black history month" where if I don't want to read about how george carver invented the peanut I'm a rayyyciss
>an entire floor of the library is dedicated to a holocaust (didn't happen but it should have) museum, that no one ever goes to
>library is another word for homeless shelter
>the shitlibs in the local coffee shop are better companions, because at least I can leave my bag while taking a piss without it getting stolen
>constant interruptions by security patrol walking around
>hobos try to talk to me or ask me for stuff
>entire place smells like hobo
>they all shoot drugs in the bathroom
>they don't have any books I want to read, but have ten copies of fifty shades of shit or whatever killary cunton had published recently
>oprah is their only god
>droves of the underclass coming in with their rampaging spawn just to borrow DVDs of tv shows that use laugh tracks and whatever generic garbage hollyjew just shat out
>approximately 50 books on the american slave trade but only 3 on ancient greece

And they wonder why I pirate books. Thanks liberals.

Literally the only reason I've ever visited a public library, since high school, has been as a tourist in foreign cities, or occasionally also, if I was out and about and hadn't the time to go home, for printing. If I want any of the kinds of books they're likely to have, I'll download it. If I want a rare book, universities have week-passes. We should stop pretending public libraries are real things and just install 'public access centres' or some-such instead.

>>9356472
>he doesnt moonwalk out of libaries.

>>9357943
I'm having trouble parsing this. What do you mean by 'deposit'?

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>>9356589
Atleast you're not Venezuelan. You would be eating the books by now

>>9358955
try a dictionary bro

>>9358991
Do you feel smart, writing that? You remembering that one time you got a High Distinction and thinking this - this sort of wit here - that's the reason I get those perfect grades?

Especially around lavatories, a lot of cultures have a tendency to be euphemistic and leave out important syntactic, assuming others will understand what's meant. Deposit the toilet paper into what? I don't know, because I'm not familiar with the anon's vernacular.

Thanks for the contribution, anyways.

>>9359025
*important syntactic details
how appropriate

>>9356589
Rio de Janeiro only had ONE public library and it closed? Seriously? And I thought I lived in a shithole, but in my 2 mil inhabitants city the public library sports 20 branches. I thought things were really going down the drain when the city cut down from 37 a few years ago. And they don't allow homeless people inside or kids running around.

>>9358790
>playing weak ass flash games
I genuinely only thought those things were only played by 12 year olds, but there's grown women freaking out over a poorly re-skinned Snake game 2 aisles down.

>>9356393
>no Frank Herbert
>no Gene Wolfe
What's even the point then

>>9356564
>*autistic screeching*

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>>9359290
Rio de Janeiro is also the name of the state that encompasses Rio de Janeiro (the city). The state is bankrupt.

In the city of Rio (the heart of the state) certainly there are more libraries. In my city (Niterói) there was only this one that was actually and surprisingly good. The other "library" that I know of is comprised of one room of books, and a fucking staff that doesn't even keep quiet.

I'm really missing spending the rest of my Fridays there after college. Hold me /lit/.

>>9359445
I live in England, and the only library in my medium sized town has no classics and only shitty paperback romance novels. It's also only used by drug addicts and bums for internet access. You're not the only one suffering buddy.

>>9356531
>>9356538
>>9356557
Lol, wtf does that have to do with checking out books?

>>9356564
>.au
I think people are squatting to avoid the black widows under the seat

>have a stop in bakersfield as I'm getting through californa
>fuck this shitstain of a city and any mediocre country song it put out 40 years ago
>go to their library
>find homeless people out front openly doing crack
>bathrooms are watched by a police dude
>find a first edition of Smugglers Bible that hasn't been touched in at least 30 years
>not bad

>>9356531
>>9356538
>>9356557
Fucking Australia, you're one big meme.

>live in an eastern European shithole
>it is common knowledge that my city quarter is horrible, full of gypsies and criminals
>the local library is still 50x better than the American ones that get described itt

USA was a mistake

>>9359025
>You remembering that one time you got a High Distinction and thinking this - this sort of wit here - that's the reason I get those perfect grades?


projecting

>>9358953
underrated

>>9356472
IS THIS IRONIC!

>>9359877
Same here. I'm this guy btw >>9359290
Sometimes I almost forget to check my privilege.

>>9357484
What's his deal?
Can you give me a
Q U I K C
Q
U
I
CK
RUNDOWN

>>9356564
>don't shit on the floor

Wew

>>9356382
>stealing books you must have a commie infestation nigs don't steal books

>>9359290
I live in South America and live in a 5 million big city, there is ONE library there and they ONLY allow you to read in the library, you can't check out any books. Only reason why I bought and read on an E-reader.

>>9356597
but diversity is our strength goy

>>9358255
No, women can wear skirts too.

>campus library
>all of floor 6 is dedicated to philosophy and psychology
>floor 7 is entirely christian theology
>it's an old building but dead silent and there are dozens of private nooks where you can close the door and read peacefully

I really don't understand your grievances, guys

>>9356587
I know right

>>9360179
>>campus library
That's the difference, friendo. We're talking about public libraries. There's a world going on outside your 60k/year resort you know.

>>9356382
My library inevitably has a handful of crazies, illegal immigrants, and vanilla weirdos using the computers there all day. I don't leave my stuff when I go to take a piss.

>>9356589
Where do you live my fellow carioca? We might be thinking about the same library.

>>9356393
>why are people printing books on which they can make worthwhile profits and not my niche literallywho literature boohoo

>>9357450
underrated

>>9356531
>Safe Schools Coalition
Every time I see this I feel obliged to point out that it's literally run by pedophiles who are you using fag and tranny enabling as a stepping stone to pedophilia, or as they're calling it now at La Trobe University 'Inter-Generational Love.'

Unironically these people should be killed for the good of society. In any other century you could die for less.

>>9360547
I'm from Niterói, meu camarada. Talking about our Biblioteca Parque, and I know those 3 in Rio are closed too.

As I said here (>>9359445), I used to go there at Fridays after my classes. I'm really sad with this situation.

>>9359561
>find a first edition of Smugglers Bible that hasn't been touched in at least 30 years
Nice. Did you steal it? That book deserves better.

>>9356464
>festoon
thank you for reminding me that is a word that exists

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>>9356531

>>9357892
Wow that is pretty great.

>>9356538
how come the slang on posters like these is always one generation older than the kids reading them?

>>9356729
Santeria was a mistake

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>>9357535
>>9357916

>>9360190
hahahaha okay poor person, don't touch me

>>9356564
>standing up to wipe

who does this?

>>9357910
>full of Harry Potter fanfiction that covers backstories for every single character ever imagined

>>9356393
>Neil Gaiman
dropped

>>9356382

The library is one of the most democratic institutions in our nation, right behind the ER.

>>9356382
>a fellow melbournian

which library is this?

>>9357486
how is St Andrews? Was considering going there

>>9356506
B-but how will you return Tropic of Cancer?

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>>9361350
Well, all I know is I'll be drawing lots of pee-pees and wee-wees inside the book everyday until they open up again.

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>>9358145
>some old guy who saw a what he considered an inappropriatley dressed 12 year old, loudly exclaimed "I GUESS SOMEONE HAS TO DO IT" and just punches her in the face,

The hero we deserve

>>9360927
Because they are made by people one generation older than the kids reading them.

>>9356382
Porn was filmed in my university's library. I can't tell exactly where though so I just never sit in out of the way spots.

>>9361292
Lots of wankers.

I once had a guy at the library start talking to me about my shirt, accuse me of being an alien, and then threaten to strangle me.

>>9356531
what is the problem with poster

>>9357892
>Too natural

Nigga, I love shitting in the woods.

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>library is named after a poet
>the entire selections are some old ass registers of aqueducts, high school level physic and harry potter

>>9361450
There really are. I was astounded.

>small 30k people town in a post-communist shithole
>amazing library with thousands of books, from all the classics to any even remotely popular genre fiction novel for the masses
>everything neatly organized by country/culture of origin, with Greek section, Spanish section, Russian section, German section, French section, American section, British section, etc.
>haven't step foot in it since I bought a Kindle almost ten years ago

>>9356531
what a qt, I don't even mind

>>9356538
>k thanks

Sounds so out of place.

>>9361911
this tbch

>>9361711
just tell us where, you're not going to be recognised

>>9358145
>SOMEONE HAS TO DO IT
top kek, Anon.
Made my morning.

>>9359025
>Deposit the toilet paper into what

INTO THE FUCKING TOILET, WHERE ELSE YOU AUTISTIC MONGOLOID. HOLY FFUUUUUCCCKK

>>9358145
>some old guy who saw a what he considered an inappropriatley dressed 12 year old, loudly exclaimed "I GUESS SOMEONE HAS TO DO IT" and just punches her in the face
Literally crying with laughter. Sure taught her a lesson.

Please post whatever you can.