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Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com |
I just. The glimpse of a society where you actually fund the library? Like a lot? And people USE it? It was packed!
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Kelly
@kehlee.bsky.social
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I am SO lucky, my city has an incredible new library and folks are really using it. It's a spot of wonderful.
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Dr. Fade
@fade.bsky.social
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I have seen exactly one library in the US that does about 80% of that, and it was at a small private liberal arts college in Saint Paul. The sewing spaces with tools, the free art supplies, the 3D printers, the massage chairs--! I miss it so much.
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Hannah
@venneh.bsky.social
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My god this is gorgeous tho
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Skiriki Fyxe
@skiriki.bsky.social
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It also has AC! Considering how hot things have been...
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@sluice.bsky.social
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I would pay more for my audiobook to come through on Libby.
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Janeishly
@janeishly.bsky.social
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If they're like Swedish libraries, it's all free too. But then again Scandinavians pay rather more income tax than you do in the US.
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton)
@funranium.bsky.social
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This is no mere library. This is a Palace of Culture.
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Lea Viljanen
@ladybugfi.bsky.social
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Without the Finnish library system I would not be the person I am today. My local was a block away and I regularly carried home big stacks of books of every genre when I was a kid. Nobody batted an eye if it was ”above my level”. So there is long tradition.
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Valerie Kemp
@valeriekemp.bsky.social
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The Ann Arbor District Library has most of these things at their main branch. I was very pleasantly surprised. I never imagined getting a telescope from the library or using their 3D printer maker space. Wish more libraries were this way.
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Ria Bridges
@bibliotropic.bsky.social
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Libraries around here aren't quite so well funded, I think, but a lot of them in my city have a tool library at the very least. 1 has food for hungry people to just take if they need a meal. In recent summers, they give out free passes for provincial parks to anyone with a library card.
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Robin Marwick
@electricland.bsky.social
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Ooh I hope you come to Toronto someday! We love our libraries! www.torontopubliclibrary.ca
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Chris Howe
@chrisjhowe.bsky.social
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We do community libraries pretty well in Australia, too. They're run by local government. Funding is always a work in progress but they do a lot with what they have, and they're very popular for it.
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@ichthygirl.bsky.social
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The Chattanooga library is like this! They just recently added outdoor gear like tents, backpacks, hiking poles, and other gear you can check out. I’m a big fan of their tool and seed libraries as well.
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Aro Elias
@aropakkanen.bsky.social
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They also have stuff like power drills, (ice) skates, tennis racquets, pedometers and more you can borrow. At one point, you could even borrow a rowboat!
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Emily
@cat-appreciator.bsky.social
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We have most of these things here in Christchurch, although on a smaller scale. Hopefully we can entice you to New Zealand some time. You like birds, we have birds like you wouldn’t believe!
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Glynn Stewart
@glynnstewart.bsky.social
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Much as I approve of libraries going this way, I end up mourning "library as quiet space" I tried to work in an updated library recently, and there were no quiet spaces at all. Evolution is good, but smaller libraries especially lose the ability to have quiet corners.
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