Town empties library to protest closure

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Library Lady oughta love this. :D

A town has emptied its library in a bid to fight plans to close it down.


People in Stony Stratford, near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, have spent the week withdrawing their maximum allowance of books in protest against council plans to close it as part of budget cuts.

And today they said the plan had been a success, with all 16,000 books withdrawn from the library.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...-emptied-in-bid-to-fight-closure-2185447.html
 
Nice!

That said one of my dream homes would be a converted library.
 
I'd hate to be the guy that got stuck with the Terry Goodkind novels.
 
Bikewer said:
Cool. They can probably set up a computer network for borrowing from each other....
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Many people feel file-sharing is like that regardless of the copyright issues, especially when it comes to text books.
 
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Destroy a 187,000 books! That's like a crime!
 
Seems like the townsfolk have made a pretty good start. If the library were willing to increase the borrowing limit per person, they could probably get rid of the remaining 171,000 books in no time!
 
Damn------I don't know what I'd do if they ever closed down my library system. I go there 4 or 5 days a week just to sit and read whatever book I have going at the moment.
 
Uncle Otto said:
Damn------I don't know what I'd do if they ever closed down my library system. I go there 4 or 5 days a week just to sit and read whatever book I have going at the moment.
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I'm curious. Why do you go to the library to read rather than doing so at home or some other location?
 
The_Animus said:
I'm curious. Why do you go to the library to read rather than doing so at home or some other location?
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It gets me out of the apartment and allows me to interact with others. It's kind of like "why do you go to a movie theater to watch a movie when you can view it at home on the TV or the computer?"

I simply enjoy the atmosphere and setting of the library to read in. Also, it allows me to check out my next book when I've finished the one I'm reading right now. I don't buy many books anymore------I go to the library and check out something interesting to me.

I dunno------I guess I'm a bibliophile.

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LibraryLady said:
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/new_jersey/camden-closing-library-system-20100806-apx



Sigh.
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Yes, it's sad. :(

The library I visit most often recently downsized their book collection. Some of their choices about what to discard were rather odd, to say the least. I got Humphrey Carpenter's biography of Benjamin Britten for less than a dollar because they were discarding it. And it was their only bio of Britten. As I was paying for it, I pointed out to the librarian that it seemed odd to be discarding such a good quality book, and her response was to look at the copyright date (1992) and note that it was rather old! :jaw-dropp I was too stunned to point out to her that biographies don't have an expiration date.
 
I want to see the look on the librarian's face when the ruling get reversed and they are dealing with 16,000 returns
 
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