What does /pol/ think of libraries

Whenever I go to a public library I only ever see minorities using the computers, students at the desks and one old guy reading a book.

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>>136651912
>tfw when to intelegant to meme good

>>136651912
Breddy cool/good, although their utility now isn't nearly as pronounced or necessary as it once was with access to information being near-universal and greater than it's ever been.
If anything, public-style organizations like libraries would be better used at this point in giving people access to high-initial capital input objects, goods, or services which they may need or could have niche use(s) like industrial equipment, 3D printers, AR/VR equipment, etc.

>>136652461
>If anything, public-style organizations like libraries would be better used at this point in giving people access to high-initial capital input objects, goods, or services which they may need or could have niche use(s) like industrial equipment, 3D printers, AR/VR equipment, etc.
Those are called makerspaces or something similar thereof, if I remember correctly.

Libraries are where homeless people go to look at porn on the Internet.

>>136652584
Sounds like a pretty faggy name tbhwyf

I love libraries. The one I used to go to would get filled with literal homeless people though so I dont know. Book stores are probably going to go out of business some day too. Sad!

>>136651912
I like them. Why do leftists think that they invented the library though?

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Paper books > E-Books

>People NEED access to books

No, they do not.

>>136651912
if you charge people to use libraries they will appreciate books more

>>136652693
It is, but I don't care enough to think of a better one.

>>136652136

its almost like libraries are a useful service for low income folks, what a surprise

>>136651912
Libraries cost almost nothing, it's not the same as healthcare

>>136652673
And sleep/sit and drink booze away from the sun. And prostitute in the restrooms

>>136651912
They're grand
Better than 90% of art museums

>>136652869
Literally what, what's your reasoning for this?
> Inb4 some meme ad hoc response
Is there any actual evidence for the claim?

>>136652136

I went to a library for the first time in a decade a few weeks back. It was a surprisingly nice experience. Big kids' section with a bunch of parents and their kids, lots of people of all ages using the computers or reading, a fully manned desk (indicating good funding), very clean, up-to-date section of magazines and newspapers, etc.

Really surprising, and really quite gratifying too. I wasn't expecting it.

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>>136651912
Every library I've been too has been infested with niggers, all of them hogging the free computers while they let their kids run amok in the children's book section.

whenever I go to the library its kids playing minecraft or flash games

>>136653155
Libraries would be great if it wasn't for all the filthy darkies and disgusting foreigners

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Hmm...

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>>136652793
this

>>136653003
the gov have to pay for librarians, there are usually 10 librarians hired for an average sized library.
the gov also have to pay for utilities like air conditioning, heating, cleaning services, office tools, internet, electricity, etc.
all this added, the average cost to maintain a library is around 90 grand a month. thats for a single library

>>136651912
They will be quickly deemed unnecessary thanks to technology.

>>136651912
>>136652136
I have a very nice library but then again i live in a 95% white town

>>136651912
Also what is it with Leftist and Sanig ? They're autistic in the worst way possible

>>136652967
I am saying that the whole 'reading books' part is almost defunct and libraries should be converted into more useful facilities, jackass.

>>136651912
>leftist can barely string together a single sentence to make a plan
>Has no clue how to finance library, get books for it or who will run it
>Meanwhile neoliberal has plan that will not only result in greater economic freedom but uses existing market mechanism to create and maintain the library

And this is why leftism fails

>>136651912
>what is an ebook
>what is ordering online
>what is a PDF

>>136652712
I've been on a buying spree for vintage antique CSA history books ever since that idiot shot up that Church in Charleston. So far, 130 and counting. Hell, I just built a 6'x10' wall book case for my newly built library. I converted the never ever used separate dining room.

>>136654406
I should say this is my second wall unit bookcase. The other one is 9'x7'.

I like libraries, I just wish homeless people didn't hang around them. There should be a dress code to go into a library that says no scruffy cloths and you can't smell like cat piss.

>>136653132
>every single library starts to charge people ten dollars per entry
>people realize books arent free and wonders what makes them so special
>turns out they're filled with information written by smartasses that can actually help you and you dont have much of those in your house
>value of books skyrockets, people start reading them and niggers start stealing books because you can sell each for $50

I really wish lefties had the balls to take their political power back from (((them))). Every time they're about to they get distracted by typical identity politics.

>>136654651
10$ is to much per checkout, but I'd support a monthly subscription fee of 20$. Would keep homeless and niggers out of them too.

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>>136651912

libraries are pretty great, one of the best socialist wins in history

the rightwingers want to charge for information
and the nazis just want to burn books

wew

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>>136653500
>the average cost to maintain a library is around 90 grand a month.

80k of that is wasted on frivolous bullshit and the wages of women that have worked their way into administrative positions that do absolutely nothing productive.

The entire reference department was just people doing Google searches for retards.

>former library employee of 10 years

>>136651912
I use them. They're nice.

I don't know how important they are now that the internet is so big, but generally I see poor and old people reading and I respect that.

>>136654651
also
>every single library starts to charge people ten dollars per entry
>only people that really need to do research or some nerd shit will use libraries
>no homeless or minority fucks around
>libraries actually become useful for once and you can go there to meet successful smart people and expand your contacts

>>136651912
People need access to movies and television. We should make cable and Netflix a public utility.

>>136652793
This.

Can't track my metadata faggots

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Filled with leftists/social workers/fags/pseudointellectuals.

>>136651912
Libraries are good in theory but they are full of homeless and retards.
I was living out of my car for awhile because I let the neet go to far. I was using the library wifi to find work and I saw all of the human refuse.
inb4 I was homeless too I still bathed and didn't come in drunk/high and puked on myself
You should have to prove that you have paid taxes to get a library card.

>>136654406
That's really cool anon.

Are CSA history books written by the CSA or about it?

>>136652188
At least Re-rack the books

>>136655052
I just want to keep niggers out of the library hogging all the computers so they can watch worldstar vids. Either we make a monthly sub fee or we ban all niggers and homeless. I know which one is easier to do.

>>136651912
>take screenshot of computer homescreen
>set screenshot to wallpaper
>delete all homescreen icons
>laugh internally when people click icons that won't even highlight

This is really an 'everywhere' prank.

>>136655474
Not at my library. They disable privileges like that

>>136655445
of course you want to ban people from using it, im not suprised

the next steps are burning books and calling certain sciences ((jew science)) and some art ((entartete kunst)

fucking NERD

>>136655445
I live in Chicago, here they watch porn. It's something sacred -- not to mention completely legal to do here.

>>136652712
www.booksalefinder.com

>>136651912
When they started handing money to Amazon so you could rent books for your Kindle on the Library's dime, I decided we need to defund them.

I like libraries but whenever I go to my local one it always seems to coincide with some sort of arranged daycare thing and the entire building has the sound of screaming children echoing through it and I get frustrated and leave VERY quickly.

At least when I was at school/college/uni I didn't have to put up with that.

>>136655326
Unless you buy your paper books online

>>136652967
>folks
Found the shitlib

>>136652793
While paper books are superior it is far easier to pirate e-books and read them on my kindle then it is to print out a pdf.

>>136654925
>>136654651
Haven't found a public one in the US that charges entry fees, but several libraries charge fees to borrow DVDs/CDs because people always steal or sell them.

>>136655625
How dare you even make the assumption that I would ever burn a book? I just want the people who aren't there to read, research, or look for a job on the computers to get out and stay out. A liberary isn't a place for you to watch porn or other niggers like yourself beat the shit out of each other on worldstar. I feel the same way about public schooling. If some nigglet is going to disrupt the class and never get a god damn thing done then kick him the fuck out and tell him not to come back.

>>136655474
DEVIL
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>>136655882
At the very least it means kids are at a fucking library which I didn't think was a thing anymore.

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>>136651912
Libraries are fantastic. Really underrated and underutilized, but I love them that way. Keep them funded but not popular enough to ruin. I go to mine frequently. This past weekend I read a book there about acrylic paints.

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>>136652188
>tfw no more /fitlit/
/mlpol/ was fun too.

>>136655625
Ideally, yes

>>136656161
sorry i just assumed your flag wasn't ironic
my bad

as ffor your first comment, there is no reason to ban niggers oor homeless who read

>>136656161

Don't blame him, you're the one that's posting under a fascist flag of course you wanna kick out people you don't like from using public utilities

>>136651912
buy your own books commie scum

>Tax credit for X
>NeoX
dropped

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>>136653155
>computers

They should rip the Internet out of all libraries. There's no good way to keep the porn out without """censorship""" and it serves little benefit anyway. It should be redpilling poor people on the (((forces))) that control them with books and help with finding info.

Instead of shunning the bums they should be providing showers so they don't stink while they are there. They could literally be getting jobs if they can learn info or skills from books.

Anyone found to be dropping off kids to go apeshit and wreck the place should be banned and fined $1,000.

What does /pol/ think of the new policy?

>>136651912
Full of cucks and pansies. I'm been in there once and didn't read nothing that had a liberal bias. Fuck libraries

They've become too infested by niggers as their hangout

>>136653150
What city?

>>136655625
>implying the work of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld didn't deserve to be burned for the promotion of mutilating the mentally ill.

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>>136655895
DELET THIS

Free Library of Philadelphia is a great building, and has a thorough reading selection. Unfortunately it is filled with niggers, homeless, and homeless niggers using the computer for internet

>>136656565
I think it's fine as long as it's limited. The one I went to had a time limit for use and I think certain things were blocked. The catalog was accessible for an unlimited time though, or you could just bug one of the librarians to look something up.

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>>136656058
One of my university's libraries requires student ID and non students can enter for annual fee of forty dollars.

It's specifically designed to keep the homeless and randoms out. A crazy man axed a woman some decades ago

>>136656795
Not sure if you're retarded or just never been to a library

>>136656425
My flag isn't ironic. Just because I subscribe to an ideology doesn't mean I support every fucking thing that has been done in the name of it. Burning information is an atrocity. If a nigger comes to a library to read then it would be the first one I ever saw, but I wouldn't kick him out unless it brought screaming nigglets. Homeless need to show up not soaked in piss or vomit or be turned away at the door. Like I said, there should be a dress code, you shouldn't need a full suit but no logo t-shirts, no sandals, skirts must be a certain length, no exposed cleavage ect.
>>136656433
No I want to kick people who aren't using the public facility for it's intended purpose out.

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>>136656565
This would also work. No computers mean no reason for Niggers and homeless to hang around, at the cost of people not being able to use them for research or job hunting.

>>136651912
I think libraries are cool.

>>136656632

i don't agree, but even so, if you do, one book hardly justifies the burning of all those the nazism deemed burnable

>>136657162
>there needs to be a dresscode
sure
>no logo t-shirts, no sandals, skirts must be a certain length, no exposed cleavage ect.
too odly spesific
i mean for gods sake
>no logo t-shirts
wew

google "index of [book] epub" to access the online library

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>>136651912
I think we should all go to our local libraries and stock it full of red pilled books.

Library is a nice idea, but these days it's basically a bunch of hobos skimming off free computer time. Practically nobody actually checks out books

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>>136651912

>>136656620

Ottawa. Not a nice place in a lot of ways, but the suburbs are at least pretty prosperous. Even the little satellite towns nearby are doing well. My dad lives about half an hour outside the city, in a little podunk place, but they've got a parade and fireworks every Canada day, and even their own little library (which he apparently likes but I've never been to). Also a local school, so the kids don't need to be shipped into the city every day. Not bad for a tiny farming town.

>>136657470
Logo T-shirts are not allowed in almost any formal places. But if that's to harsh then I'd say no t-shirts with images of or promoting any violence, ideology, or controversial subject, or logos from companies or organizations that promote those things. Leave your "this is what a feminist looks like" shirt at home.

>>136652673
I used to work at a library, and one time I found a bunch of porn bookmarked on one of the computers in the childrens section.

I wanted to rent some textbooks to teach myself physics because I prefer working with hard copies rather than PDFs, but most of the science titles I found were for children or casuals.

Unfortunately this is a flaw I've seen with libraries - they don't seem to stock rigourous textbooks intended for serious students. Shelling out cash for every subject I may want to explore in depth is not realistic, so I guess I have to put up with ebooks.

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>>136657470
I kind of agree, the Nazi's should have broad cast the contents of that book to the world, it would have removed all shadow of doubt that the forces they were plagued with needed to be removed. And we wouldn't be faced with that plague again in the current year.

Libraries are solely for poor/homeless people, old people and immigrants. A cheap e-reader lets you carry a library's worth of pirated books with you wherever you go, and even if you went to a library do you really want to read something that was likely read by someone on the can?

>>136657885
I'm really surprised you say Ottawa is "not nice". I've always perceived it as a quaint up-and-coming small city like Calgary was fifteen years ago. Very white collar, nice houses, not too much congestion or "crime". What's this dirty underside all about Anon?

>>136657709
if you charge people $10 per entry they will read each and every single book because they dont want to waste their money

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>>136657896

more like 'thats what the feminists would ban' too
everyone is too sensitive these days

>>136657929
they should, but the problem was of course that too much reading leads to disobidiant people

i mean, they basically though theoretical-physics is useless, while people in the current year use it for gps for example.
The ideology was doomed to fail like the communists under its own storytelling

pic semi-related

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>>136651912
>mfw in library school because I loved books and wanted to help my community but my program and profession is pozzed to the fucking core

Make no mistake, libraries alongside schools are the great indoctrinators of liberal cucked nonsense. I had a class where analyzed children's books for racism and sexism and should promote books that encourage race-mixing, tranny bullshit, and homo faggotry. There's even a movement in libraries to get fucking drag queens to read to little kids. Make my words anons, use the library simply to pick up books. Do not stay long or let your children anywhere near there.

>>136657896

See, this is the problem. If you're for people using public facilities the way they're intended then why are you banning people over such banal things? You can make a case about certain shirts or logos for being banned at a the library. If someone came in there wearing a shirt with a swastika or hammer and sickle or the antifa logo on it, then yeah sure. Kick them out. But the skirt lengths and covered cleavage is completely unnecessary. If some lady wants to read some books in the library then let her do it, I fail to see what's so wrong if she's showing some cleavage

>>136658210

It's not so much that it has a dirty underside as that it has no sense of community. Nobody in Ottawa ever talks to anyone else, and you can get dirty looks just by saying 'hello' to someone passing you on the street. There's no such thing as neighbors here, and the people you live near are going to be as much strangers as the people halfway across the city.

It's great if you like privacy, because people *will* leave you to your own devices. It's terrible if you want to actually meet people outside of specially designated times/areas (cons, clubs, etc).

>>136658126
I like reading something not a screen for once anon. And it's nice to look around the library on topics. It's the good experience too, but apparently not everyone's library is the best according to this thread.

>>136651912
It's where I go to read books I wouldn't otherwise buy. Mu dad would also copy vhs tapes and burn dvds from there

>>136653350
You could say that about many things

>>136658472
If she shows up all dressed to impress then she isn't there to read or learn and is a distraction to the men who are.
>>136658421
I wouldn't want anyone showing up at the library wearing a shirt with a fasces (fascist symbol you see on my flag) or a Swastika, or a "don't tread on me" shirt anymore than an antifa, feminist, or communist shirt. People wear those in the hopes that someone will either be uncomfortable around them or confront them, not things that should happen in a library.

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>>136658421
Absolutely incorrect, too much reading doesn't make people disobidient, the content of what is being read and weather it's truthful is very important. If something like Feminism/marxism which is built upon lies regarding percieved transgressions. Whereas it's provable that a large and vocal amount of Jewish people want to destroy people of European heritage. They make no effort to hide it. Unless you think Kalergi was lying and or never existed, and his plans aren't being implemented by influential people today.

>>136658492
It sounds like one of those peaceful bedroom communities where the residents go home, sleep, go to work, and repeat, and where the only high-traffic commercial area is the grocery store, except it's an entire city. Sounds really peaceful desu. I'd enjoy living there, because everyone else would be an insular introvert.

Legal piracy. All those people reading books and the author gets paid for the sale of 1 book.

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>>136651912
>/pol/
>reading
Ayy lmao

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>>136652967
I'm sure they like it fine, but I don't see why I should pay for the free homeless net cafe. They reek of crap and it makes the whole library stink so I can't enjoy it.

>>136659382
https://censorshipissues.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/censorship-of-books-in-the-soviet-union-from-1920-1940/
the majority of modern communists haven't even read their own manifesto, faggot.

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>>136656935
What did he axe her?

>>136659209

I'd say that's more or less accurate. There's pockets where other things happen, but it's pretty rare.

But you might be surprised at how many things are actually missing. It's easy to take for granted all the stuff that other people do in a more social city. Introverts might often style themselves as loners, but I'd say it's more true that they're social scavengers, living off the community other people build.

I say this as someone who is very definitely an introvert. But for a city the size of Ottawa, all the tabletop/P&P gaming groups are tiny, not to mention rare. You've got to be willing to drive like, half an hour or more to get to a game, and it's pretty sure someone else there will have had to come just as far from the other direction.

Basically, unless you've already got a group of friends, or do stuff with family, don't expect anything.

>>136659067

>If she shows up all dressed to impress then she isn't there to read or learn and is a distraction to the men who are.

Okay but isn't a practical reason at all. I think the lady has the right to look her best when she's out in the public, just like how any man has the right to look his best out in public too. And if a couple of guys get distracted by her tits then who the fuck cares? They're adults and I think they're more than capable of making their own decisions in life. Those women aren't walking around with nothing but panties and fucking nipple tassels. If you're gonna ban cleave you might as well just ban women for having big tits

>>136651912
>problem: liberal idiots don't realize a hyphen hyphenates two words and doesn't separate them.

>>136660020
Supposedly nobody would go to the Senators games because they build the stadium in the middle of nowhere, meanwhile tickets in New York were going for $1000+. So I started watching streams of the games myself, and I quite enjoyed them and the team's playing style actually. This is one thing they should actually move to a sane location. People will come, even introverts.

>but I'd say it's more true that they're social scavengers, living off the community other people build.
I think about that a lot. Social capital is the lifeblood of a society. If people like us refuse to go out and talk to people, we're really just benefiting from services/institutions/systems that never would have been created if every single person was just like us.

>>136660310
Nice false comparison. A library isn't a place you go to hook up. It's a place you go to learn. She can wear he booty shorts and crop top at the mall, at a concert, coffee shop, pretty much anywhere she wants that isn't a place of education like a school or library. In those places she should be required to cover up.

I understand that you put women on a pedestal and think they should do whatever they want because they are stronk and empowered but women dress like that for the sole reason of turning heads, in the same way a guy wearing an SS uniform is trying to get you to look at him. It's not appropriate in a learning environment. Be a whore somewhere else.

>>136661304

As long as people are going to the library to learn I don't think it terribly matters what they wear so long as there's a minimum clothing requirement. i.e: Closed in shoes, shorts and a shirt. And you're the one that's making false comparisons that wearing a shirt with a swastika is on the same level as some lady showing a bit of cleavage underneath her shirt.

Again, people have their own agency and are fully capable of making their own decisions. The woman sitting across from you with the cleavage will only be distracting if you let it. Nobody is stopping them for learning at the library. Except for you because you find certain clothing choices morally offensive and that you apparently know what's best for everyone.