[ SECRET POST #3422 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3422 ⌋

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Comments

Re: controversial opinions thread

[(Anonymous)]

Public library employee here-- People who live in places with public libraries pay taxes, some portion of which pay for the purchasing of books, dvds, subscription databases, zumba classes, ebooks, children's storytime, computers, and whatever else, which are then available to said tax-paying public for "free." Librarians and other staff keep track of what authors and movies and so on are popular, and buy more copies of popular things. Ebooks have a lending limit license, and can mostly only be used by a certain number of patrons a certain number of times before the library has to purchase another copy. In some ways, print books are more economical; it's possible to frankenstein a new cover and endpapers on an old hardback. Also, we count the number of tines books and movies and so on are checked out, which is why so many libraries appreciate it if you don't reshelve books.

Piracy is theft of potential profit. I prefer pirates to people who straight-up steal from libraries, and it is possible to pirate simply by copying a library owned dvd or cd and returning it, but I buy dvds if I can get my hands on them, which is not always the case, and pirate (or rather, have friends with faster internet pirate) the occasional thing that isn't available on dvd because my computer is a dinosaur and my internet connection is slow as shit, so streaming and downloading aren't good options unless I want to spend a month watching my computer crash.

Re: controversial opinions thread

[(Anonymous)]

What do you mean by re-shelve books? And wow I had no idea people steal from libraries. I thought the barcode on books prevented anyone from taking anything without borrowing it first.

Re: controversial opinions thread

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not a librarian, but my mother is. Those barcodes can be removed... not easily, but they can. Also the security system gives off false alarms and if you don't stop walking, chances are nobody will chase after you because the library staff here is 80% little old ladies.

People have also stolen pages out of coffee table or reference books by simply cutting them right out of the binding. CDs/DVDs get stolen by someone who steals the disc and leaves the case (with the security barcode!) hidden somewhere in the library. It's kind of crazy and awful what people do.

Re: controversial opinions thread

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT--oop, didn't explain the reshelve thing--when you're browsing in a library, take a bunch of stuff off the shelves, and only check out a quarter of it because not all of it looked interesting or useful on closer inspection, we want you to leave the stuff you didn't want on a cart or the designated shelf end or whatever, so we can put it back, because first we mark down that it was looked at and not checked out, which can sometimes save stuff that's not often checked out from being culled, and is pretty much the only eay to see which reference books are popular.

Re: controversial opinions thread

[(Anonymous)]

Oh I had no idea!! I always ended up reshelving the books I didn't borrow because I felt bad for leaving it. I will keep this in mind when I go to the library. Thanks for the clarification!