Re: OT: Public libraries

On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:40:29 -0700, Don Y
<blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

On 4/22/2025 1:43 PM, legg wrote:

One of the benefits of library computers is access to the

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Yes, but one can access that from home (computer, phone).  Hence
my comment regarding storing books in "high cost" spaces instead
of "in a back room"; if the staff are the ones who will be
PICKING the books, then there is no need for the co$metic$ of
public stacks.
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Anything that requires home hardware or internet payments is shifting
the publicly costed structure onto the backs of a public that can not
always afford it.

It's the reason public libraries were developed by altruists
in the first place.

RL