Re: OT: Public libraries

On 4/22/2025 10:01 PM, legg wrote:

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.

But, by that reasoning, shouldn't healthcare, transportation,
potable water, food, education, etc. ALSO be "free" to those
populations?
Yet, you wouldn't want to shame them into admitting their *need*...
I've always seen the libraries as something that serves the ENTIRE
public, not just a portion thereof.