A nice gesture of that library

Dec 1, 2022 7:15 AM

Odinakles

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This may be a repost but I just found this image and I think it's great

I couldn't figure out why rope was on the list, oh that's rape

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's a shame that these are "Tough" topics; should be able to discuss openly and freely without stigma...but here we are

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wow, Only 362 dollars and 76 cents to get abused. what a steal!

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

okay I choose Sex and Eating Disorders please. And a little bit of Depression.But why are they so expensive ? $616,95 I can get STD for free

3 years ago | Likes 104 Dislikes 2

I would suggest adding "U.S. history" as well

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I thought those were prices for a moment.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#20 covers 12 of those

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Dewey Decimal? Do We Ever!

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I don't think that's a post, I think it's the side of a bookcase.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

it took my stupid brain a whole half minute to realize those are NOT prices..... fml

3 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

616 seen some shit y'all

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

616.xx is where the heavy shit is kept

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Librarians, like dogs, are the best people. Love to 'em all.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Body change outside of navajo skin-walker stories?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Infertility 616.69. Well there's your problem right there.

3 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

“Do you have a section for memes?”

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not a repost, just a nice solid post.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Damn man, making it easy for Reps to just go to the one bookcase and get rid of it all.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Disappointed there's no "wanked my dick down to a nub" section, SMDH

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

362, abuse, alcohol, drugs, rape and suicide.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Isn't that the same list used by Book Banners?...

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

For a second there I thought this was a price list

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is a nice idea, dewey is problematic though https://www.google.com/amp/s/bookriot.com/racism-in-the-dewey-decimal-system/amp/

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Both of those things are true, but not very related to each other.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Veganism isn't there.

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Vegans do the opposite of hiding and tell every other person about it.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

That's because *insert meme here*

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"How to read Dewey Decimal .... 420.69"

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

minus infertility I know way more about all these than I wish I did

3 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

I said the same thing to myself reading the list, checking them off like it’s an inventory oof

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I don't know where the excess info came, but you know u can turn all that knowledge into helping others We all need an ear and solid advice

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Why would you wish to know less?

3 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Personal experience with any number of these topics can be pretty traumatizing, and one could reasonably wish they didn’t have that 1st hand

3 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

As with any topic in existence. In the case of these ones, however, knowing less can and will lead to trauma for someone, imho.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Where's masturbation!?

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's right here, babeeeeeee (not really but come on, SILVER PLATTER here)

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

See that old guy over there on the free computers? Ask him.

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

As a former library employee, trust me, patrons don't need help figuring this out.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I kind of expected D&D to be on there.

3 years ago | Likes 320 Dislikes 6

793.93. Indoor Amusements

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

After the death of your level 15 or so: 616.85, 158.1, 305.23

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Nah no need to post the group meets every other Friday at 8 pm in conference room B. Bring your own dice and dew.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Topology

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

793.93 D91

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My Library has a Grown Up Gaming League. Does Board Games, Tabletop, Magic, all on the safety of the Library.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We are not ashamed anymore. D&D is cool.

3 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 1

Dicks&Dongs?

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I used to read the D&D books - they were in the reference section. This was 1st ed books so long ago.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

My first Ed. DM Guide was the only thing to survive a house fire at a friends place. Cover and page edges are charred. Looks badass!

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Forklift certification…?

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Bankruptcy/Alcohol/Mental Illness

3 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 3

I thought bankruptcy was for Warhammer players

3 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Self Esteem and Self Harm are close runner ups…never using Plasmaguns again (5e)

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

And dice goblins

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I still want to make a shirt for my warhammer group that says "Warhammer 40,000..... Drugs would be cheaper."

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dewey Decimal

3 years ago | Likes 70 Dislikes 0

Just Dewey.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dewey ever!

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You son of a bitch. +1

3 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

v?

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ahem... Got a book about ordering from Starbucks for the first time. Asking for a friend.

3 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

"venti doesn't mean large, thats stupid"

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

152.46, 155.5, and 616.85

3 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

The existence of such a page indicates how far we have strayed from Allah.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I hate how the internet is replacing libraries.

3 years ago | Likes 140 Dislikes 11

It’s not. Not if you have reasonable politics, culture and community at least. The US may be in trouble.. but libraries here in N-EU are ok.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not everywhere ❤️

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

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It's the ease of access, multitudes of more info and convenience of the Internet compared to libraries that upset me the most.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've lived in three provinces in Canada and in all of them libraries have active programs, community outreach, and resources that get used.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

We will never be replaced. We have hundreds of people come in everyday for programs, computers, get books and things, and just to hang.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Then use your local library. Fucking love mine

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Not everyone can get to a library. Or has a library where they live. The internet is a powerful tool.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Archive.org is trying to help fix that.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nah, just because you don't use a library doesn't mean it's universal. Heck my library has Wifi Hotspots to checkout for people who don't

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

have internet.

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My org produces software that’s a data repo for science, most of the schools that use it have librarians involved.

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Is that you, Alexandra?

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It's not the internet, it's conservatives. Lots of people go to the library to use the internet in the first place.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That'll never happen. And even if it does, librarians will still exist to catalog the whole thing

3 years ago | Likes 72 Dislikes 2

Work at a software company. We do user research and testing. We need a librarian to help us catalog and access shit. Theyre critical.

3 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

I mean, yes and no. If you leave funding for the public good up to the people, half the US would vote no to libraries, NPR et al., Uni, etc.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Colloquially speaking archivists catalog, librarians help find the cataloged resources

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yes

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I often go to my local library, read, use the internet, take a book out to return the next day, log on to wifi. All these things show up >

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

in records. I like to think that although I don't really NEED the library, I'm helping keep it open for those who do.

3 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

as a homeless guy. the library is my sanctuary

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

So very sorry to hear that you don't have your own door to shut out the world, but I'm very pleased you can call the library next best thing

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As an IT librarian they absolutely do. In fact that reminds me I need to do stats for November...

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

So why are you Imguring when you could be statting? No rookie numbers, now. You hear?

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Coffee making!

3 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Why, though, if I may ask?

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Because libraries clearly marked the "fiction" section.

3 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Libraries are one of the few places people can exist without being expected to pay something. It's a fantastic resource for those that >

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

i get the sentiment but I'm way too busy and impulsive to plan a trip to the library for something i can find online in 5 seconds :(

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You can support a system and not use that system...it's not just about you.

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

oh yeah i do support it, i wish i could enjoy them (and reading in general) as much as people appear to

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

< don't have things today's world expects everyone to have. Internet, printer, computers, and of course the books. Not to mention they do >

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

< all of the community building social group stuff like a church without the guilt of religion attached.

3 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

As a librarian: nah. When radio was invented it was supposed to replace libraries. When TV was invented... when Internet... audiobooks...

3 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Instead libraries have evolved. Now we provide audiobooks, 3d printing, games, video streaming etc in among normal books and stuff

3 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

We are also the original google. We are professional at information gathering. In this day and age we have so much information it's hard

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

to find the correct and factual info among all the crap. We can do that. I'm not afraid of libraries dying.

3 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

That said, I'm from Finland and we have one of the best if not the best library system (that is also protected by law) in the world.

3 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0