Do You Have a Library Card?

[dad]

i feel like everyone should utilize the library. your tax dollars pay for it, and they have a ton of resources.

some libraries have really cool stuff you can check out. for instance, when my wife and i went to San Francisco a few years ago to visit her brother, we went to the SF Public Library, and you could check out vinyl. that alone convinced my BiL to get a library card.

i use for books, CDs, audiobooks, new yorker articles.

who among us owns a library card? and what cool stuff does your library offer?

[bart]

Having vinyl records at a library seems like a tremendous waste of tax dollars. They’re taxing everyone including poor people to provide a product that only a few relatively wealthy hobbyists will use.

But yes I have a card at each of the surrounding counties’ libraries as well as the Enoch Pratt library in Baltimore city.

[dad]

i never said the system was perfect.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Yes.

Kanopy.

[JuanHamm]

If you have a library card check out the streaming app Kanopy. Lot's of good movies available.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[BurtReynolds]

I've been meaning to but havent gotten around to it since I moved here.

[dad]

what are you waiting for burt? surely, the austin library has all the great minds you so voraciously read.

[BurtReynolds]

what are you waiting for burt? surely, the austin library has all the great minds you so voraciously read.

The last time I went to a public library, the philosophy section was stuff like Chicken Soup For The Soul and Deepak Chopra.

[dad]

what are you waiting for burt? surely, the austin library has all the great minds you so voraciously read.

The last time I went to a public library, the philosophy section was stuff like Chicken Soup For The Soul and Deepak Chopra.

are you saying chicken soup can't be philosophical?

[B]

I spent 8 years on my local library board.

[JuanHamm]

I spent 8 years on my local library board.

What did you get accomplished?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I spent 8 years on my local library board.

What did you get accomplished?

He learned how to read.

[B]

I spent 8 years on my local library board.

What did you get accomplished?

We approved a bunch of shit about a big expansion which included a teen center and a giant media center. We also told a bunch of book banners to fuck off.

We were an advisory board, so we didn't do much.

[JuanHamm]

I spent 8 years on my local library board.

What did you get accomplished?

We approved a bunch of shit about a big expansion which included a teen center and a giant media center. We also told a bunch of book banners to fuck off.

We were an advisory board, so we didn't do much.

What books were they trying to ban? Also congratulations on learning how to read - that's actually quite an accomplishment in America.

[wease]

I don’t. I took both the girls to get one when they were younger but didn’t get one for myself. My reading pile is large enough as it is without adding books I have to take back somewhere when I’m finished.

[B]

I spent 8 years on my local library board.

What did you get accomplished?

We approved a bunch of shit about a big expansion which included a teen center and a giant media center. We also told a bunch of book banners to fuck off.

We were an advisory board, so we didn't do much.

What books were they trying to ban? Also congratulations on learning how to read - that's actually quite an accomplishment in America.

This one always stuck in my head. https://a.co/iFdIMBN

Some Liberal who would never normally want a book removed from the library wanted it removed because there's a page where a teddy bear spanks the doll and that's misogynistic.

[doug rr]

i saw a story yesterday on cbs sunday morning about libraries..really interesting..the last library is set foot in was the nyc one on 5th ave..i had a library card as a kid and still think about the time i checked out james and the giant peach and i forgot to return it..i learned a lesson

[Dev]

Some of the very worst people I know work in libraries.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Some of the very worst people I know work in libraries.