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[skygiants]

hebethen's request to talk about public libraries for the sixteenth deserves at least as much thoughtfulness as the crossdressing girls post I wrote yesterday, but I'm REALLY TIRED today so instead I'm just going to tell you all that public libraries are AMAZING and anyone who says that the digital age has made them outdated is flat-out wrong, because a public library is not a repository of books, it is a repository of knowledge. Also, a community space. I consistently owe the two library branches I use an average total of about ten dollars on overdue fines, but that's okay, I feel it's money extremely well spent.

Things that public libraries do:

- well yes provide books for free, a service which I use and abuse on a regular basis

BUT ALSO

- provide research and technology services for people who can't afford them
- provide free public education
- provide assistance with job hunting, language skills, computer skills, resume hunting, and a slew of other seriously important public education
- provide a place for anybody to stay inside for a few hours and get warm

Things public libraries do not do:

- provide free daycare services, as one librarian acquaintance of mine had to explain recently to a woman who tried to dump her baby with him at the front desk while she went to work


~*~*~*~LIBRARIES~*~*~*~ (the more you know)