Hey these are great suggestions, I’ll get child custody for today
Had depression yesterday, would not recommend…
Dewey gang represent
Library of Congress is better because all bible classifications start with the letters BS. Also Melvil Dewey sucked
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvil_Dewey#Controversies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Classification
Hey, you leave us to our dead classification system! Go hassle the latin scholars!
Oh good, books on how to bully. We don’t want folks to lose their technique.
Federal library funding is under threat— So go support one of the last remaining public spaces. It’s an outdated idea, somewhere a human can exist without having to spend money.
I took my young kid to a recent library event - the first time I’ve been to a library in several years, to be honest - and overheard the organizer (or leader or whatever) of the event saying “that’s why we’re here: to give people somewhere safe they can have entertainment for free.”
I didn’t have much in the way of an opinion on that person prior to that, positive or negative, but I respected the hell out of them after hearing them say that.
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In order for things like this to keep being offered, please keep an eye on your local library’s board and director. Ours are terrible, and gleefully destroying all our similar initiatives… Recent events have them feeling very empowered to do so.
Also, consider picking up a job like that too or running for a seat on such boards. There’s always too few applicants for such roles and extremists have an easy time enacting change.
the single most important reason for libraries to be freely accessible…maybe why certain folks want them to go away
If libraries didn’t already exist, to people in the USA they’d sound like some kind of socialist fever dream.
A place where anybody can go to borrow media for free? Paid with my tax dollars?
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I say this all the time! I use it to try to discredit conservatives when they make up reasons why we can’t have good things. Like, look, you love the library, and you know conservatives would make up all sorts of reasons why it couldn’t ever work. When they’re going on about how free buses (or whatever) couldn’t work, it’s the same
Benjamin Franklin was a lover of life, and he seemed to think that books helped to love life…I honestly can’t believe he was so influential as to create one of the finest institutions on the planet. Remember, he hung out with slavers…
Sure, an American invented libraries, totally /s
lending libraries?
The library of Alexandria existed a tiny bit before Franklin.
lending libraries?
So refreshing seeing those words actually used in a public setting. Suicide instead of “self unaliving”, rape instead of “grape”, etc. Maybe I really am chronically online
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Even “chronically online” seems a bit euphemistic… it’s like we’re all living under oppressive technofascism.
Good now trump knows exactly which books to ban
I don’t anyone in the Trump administration can understand the library categorization system so I think we’re okay.
Fill his kindle account in with those books! His kindle account…
what exactly do these numbers mean?
Dewey decimal system for finding books on the shelves.
Never been in a library before, huh?
I have. I was making a reference, which is why I linked that video.
The problem with this software as it exists now, is that I see your message in isolation in ‘messages’, and if I want to see the context I link to the overall thread, then I would have had to scroll down through the entire thread until I found the actual post, which I just did now, but a prolific poster is just not going to do that with every response. It is a glitch in Lenny itself that leads to these confusing return replies.
I just use Boost for Lemmy. It doesn’t have that problem.
The problem is, Boost for Lemmy should be built in, not an add on. have a thing about apps riding on other apps riding on other apps. Eventually, security is compromised.
yeah multiple people have answered it by now
Ah Lemmy, downvoting an honest question. Daddy Reddit would be proud.
Upvoted to offset the stupidity.
As an online community, we’re not here to help, we’re here to judge.
People were seriously downvoting this? People need to be more aware that what used to be common knowledge is not so common in either younger generations or other parts of the world. We should not discourage people from asking genuine questions.
38 upvotes 1 downvote. Theres always going to be people who downvote things. Could be someone who doesn’t realize that system isn’t used everywhere, or maybe their app uses a swipe feature they haven’t turned off. Sometimes when I scroll down I’ll accidentally have it slide left or right and up/downvote something without me ever really noticing it happened. I wouldn’t hate on all of Lemmy because 1 downvote though, seems overzealous
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Conan the Librarian:
books have category numbers and libraries sort their books by this
Where to find the books, shelves are indexed.
You won’t see this in a red state I can assure you
I really feel being somewhat neuro divergent when my first though was, ‘wtf Is that font’, it’s like someone made comic sans worse.
@MrMakabar this is lovely - please add alt text ❤️
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god I love librarians.
god I love librarians.
Trying to decide which anxiety DDC to look at first would give me anxiety lol.
I had to look it up:
152.4 Psychology > Perception, movement, emotions, drives > Emotions and feelings
155.5 Psychology > Perception, movement, emotions, drives > Psychology of young adults
616.8 Medical sciences and medicine > Diseases > Diseases of the nervous system and mental disorders
We don’t deserve librarians
We do deserve librarians.
For people dealing with or processing systemic trauma, this directory isn’t a luxury or a stretch goal feature, it’s an essential accessibilty feature.
There are a few things I’d add to that list, like burnout, disability, and neurodivergence, but it’s a good start.
We gotta raise the bar, it’s been in hell for too long now.
