Still visit mine from time to time. They no longer have library card to check out books. Not they use our drivers license... The library at the college I work at is slowly being downsized.. used to be a whole floor of library books now it's down to half the space and already they're remodeling to make it smaller..
Do You Still Utilize Your Local Public Library?
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I noticed recently that the Fort Worth library lets people check out musical instruments. No telling what kind of shape they are in…
Good enough to see if it's enjoyable enough to spend $x00 on a quality instrument.
I only now use my local library in a remote way.
As a regular contributor to the OED I need access to the OED Online project which is the 3rd edition of the dictionary. I have the 20 volume OED 2nd edition (1989) but the 3rd edition is so huge it will never be published in physical form.
So I use my library card number to access this online for free as my library pays the annual subscription which is great as it saves my buying my own sub.
That said, I always used to enjoy physical visits to the library as above the library is the Falmouth Art Gallery which always had something new to see.
Regards,
Jay.
As a regular contributor to the OED I need access to the OED Online project which is the 3rd edition of the dictionary. I have the 20 volume OED 2nd edition (1989) but the 3rd edition is so huge it will never be published in physical form.
So I use my library card number to access this online for free as my library pays the annual subscription which is great as it saves my buying my own sub.
That said, I always used to enjoy physical visits to the library as above the library is the Falmouth Art Gallery which always had something new to see.
Regards,
Jay.
Our local library has an annual sale that we frequent. I have a rather large collection of Pre-WWII industrial arts, joinery, gun smithing, and metalworking books and I always find good additions at the library sale. My wife collects older Sci Fi books and pre-WWII mailer cookbooks, she always finds some great Sci Fi for her collection at the library sale.
Bingo! I borrow new releases on Kindle. When my grandchildren are in town, we always visit my small town library. Like Jerry's, it is connected to every library in Maryland, so the choices are unlimited.
How is this for quaint?
Sadly, our brand new, top of the line resource library located in Hagerstown (hub of my county) is downtown, and you have to run a gauntlet of homeless and drug addicts to enter. I'm definitely not taking my grandchildren there (and have voiced my opinion to our local mayor and council many times).
We frequent Prospero's when the wife is on the hunt for old Sci Fi books, they have a huge vintage Sci Fi section in the basement, I'm sure you are familiar with that particular alcove. Anyway, I asked Tom one day if they ever got any old books on pipes or tobacco. He said "yes, but... we save them for a guy that lives up the street." I replied, oh you must mean George... Tom smiled, nodded, and said "clearly you already know him..."
Just received my first Bulgarian library card today. This will be a great resource as I try and learn this difficult language.
In the little town I grew up in, today only five enterprises are obviously prosperous, clean and nice, in a town now growing again thanks to the largest cannabis grow barns in Missouri if not the world.
The package liquor store and the beer joint are doing a good business, and it shows.
And the Christian Church still gleams and so does the public school buildings, but the most glorious of all is a brand new public library.
You walk in and there’s a twenty something college educated receptionist that looks like she belongs on an Andy Griffith Show television set as Andy’s girlfriend.
Then behind her is an old grandma librarian about my age supervising the entire show.
I knew the old librarian as a class mate and asked her how in the hell did the taxpayers ever stand still for all this righteousness in the middle of squalor and she said an old man died and made a donation so that it could be built.
Nobody thought he had a dime.
I remember serving him communion, and his suit was threadbare and old.
As I left there were little plastic dollar Fireball bottles in the gutters across the street.
And I thought that library will save more souls and do more good for more people than anything else the old man could have done with his fortune.
The Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore would let people check out framed artwork. I’m not sure if they still do though.
My wife and 3 kids practically live there. I go once or twice a month for music books and whatever other unnecessary research I'm doing at the time. I've been shocked at what all I've come across at ours. Always a fun outting. Reminds me of going with my mom as a kid. She too basically lived at one, and even worked at a big one all through her college years
I noticed you have TR as your avatar. Are you a guitar player?
Tell me about it! I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. I mean, seriously...I don't need to hear the story of the freaking casserole. Just tell me how to make the damn thing, and save the novel for the Renaissance Fair, for cryin' out loud! What the hell is wrong with people?
