@NickEast_IndieWriter @libraries @librarians @bookbubble @bookstodon Silicon Valley techbro tescrealists though be like:

NO! HUMAN PROGRESS REQUIRES LIBRARIES TO BE BURNED!!

PEOPLE GET IDEAS THAT ARE AGAINST AI FROM THERE, AND WE NEED TO BUILD AGI TO SAVE THE UNIVERSE!

#tescreal #bullshit #library

@NickEast_IndieWriter @libraries @librarians @bookbubble @bookstodon Every day is Christmas at the public library and librarians are a cross between Santa Claus and Sherlock Holmes

@NickEast_IndieWriter @libraries @librarians @bookbubble @bookstodon There is something undeniably magical about visiting a public library. I'm trying to make the most of ours.

I love that you can request a random book they don't carry, and in many cases they will procure a copy for you - which reminds me, I need to go pick up a book later today!

@analogfusion @NickEast_IndieWriter @libraries @librarians @bookstodon As a completist I love that my local library tries to get all the #books in a series once they start it. Sometimes I need to remind them to get book four out of seven if there was a mid series publishing glitch. 📚

@Kay @analogfusion @NickEast_IndieWriter @libraries @librarians @bookstodon

It's nice that most libraries' on-line catalogs have a "suggest an item for purchase" option. Some are very responsive. .. others not so much. #collectiondevelopment

Court allows Trump administration to proceed with efforts to destroy Institute of Museum and Library Services as case continues

A federal judge has declined to block the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The ruling, issued today in ALA v. Sonderling, will allow the administration’s cuts at the independent agency while the case proceeds.

@ThatMattYoung @goosey it was that particular strip that radicalized me
@NickEast_IndieWriter @libraries @librarians @bookbubble @bookstodon Not only is the supply of information seems infinite, but once you finish an item, you don't have to store it!

@NickEast_IndieWriter @libraries @librarians @bookbubble @bookstodon my local library has a staffed coffee bar as well. What more could you want?

Well, maybe a piano... oh they have one of those too. An electric piano with headphones, but still.

@NickEast_IndieWriter this was supposed to be the internet, but we fucked up along the way
@NickEast_IndieWriter @libraries @librarians @bookbubble @bookstodon Libraries are magical 🪄🦄🧙‍♀️. I had a quite unhappy childhood, went to school in the next town and always had to take a bus to school. I would sometimes "miss" the bus on purpose to spend time in the library instead of going home. It was a safe spot when no other safe spots were available. 😞
@tipap @NickEast_IndieWriter @libraries @librarians @bookbubble @bookstodon thanks!!!
As a librarian and as an ex-child who loved to take refuge in books 🤓
@Robo105 @NickEast_IndieWriter @libraries @librarians @bookbubble @bookstodon Yes, PUBLIC libraries are a sign of intelligence, PRESIDENTIAL ones not so much.
@allynkhine @NickEast_IndieWriter @libraries @librarians @bookbubble @bookstodon We don't have those in Canada so I would have to depend on your expertise on that
@NickEast_IndieWriter @libraries @librarians I work in a public library and definitely feel this way all the time. "Hey all this stuff is yours and you already paid for it, we're just taking care of it for you"

@NickEast_IndieWriter @libraries @librarians @bookbubble @bookstodon

The next level is when you realise that it's not only knowledge that belongs to us, but all the things we have built belong to us as well, and Billionaires don't generate wealth but extract it.  
Then you realise, we can, if we want, take it all back.  
That's Communist energy friend, time to become a comrade.  
#Marx #FullyAutomatedLuxuryCommunism #Communism