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I used to volunteer at a library, worst person I talked to was some asshole who claimed about me putting the books the wrong way around, which I wasn’t doing, nicest person I met there was an older woman who was getting I think like naruto manga for her grandson, I think about that duality a lot. I’m not sure why, either way Libraries are actually fucking incredible, support your local library.
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readingrobin · 2 years
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My gay wrath was envoked early this Pride Month, when my work set up a Pride display, but, instead of having the shelves full of books written by queer authors or have queer characters, they instead took random books and arranged them so that the covers make up the colors of a Pride flag.
Ah performative allyship at its finest.
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californiastatelibrary · 11 months
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Our Library Development Services team has compiled an amazing Annual Update full of California library wins, facts, and more from the 2021-2022 fiscal year. Check out the full report: https://www.library.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/LDS-Annual-Update-2021-2022.pdf?2023-04-17
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monkeymeghan · 2 years
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So my library is having an amateur photo contest. The theme is Day or Night. I just went through a bunch of my old photos to see if I could find any to submit. Do you guys think that any of these fit the theme? Idunno, for such a simple theme I think it’s kind of tough.
1. Vero Beach, Florida. 2. Pont du Gard, France. 3. Caribbean on a Disney cruise. 4. Rainbows in the backyard, Florida. 5. Eiffel Tower, Paris.
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o-the-mts · 8 months
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fairydrowning · 2 years
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"I'm saying your name in the grocery store."
-Richard Siken, Saying Your Names
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kttyjenn · 2 years
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libaries <3
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candlesandquills · 2 years
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someone: no, don’t start that book on your kindle 2 hours before it returns to the library, it 500 pages long, you won’t be able to finish it
me, looking up after 10 minutes, already on page 60: sorry what were you saying? i was reading
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good-books-to-read · 2 years
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Does anyone have a copy of the Extinction Trials by S.M. Wilson
I’m on the last chapter but library copy is missing pages 72-79
Would anyone be willing to send me a picture
Thanks
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jovianplutonian · 2 years
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"When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
-Pride And Prejudice
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fan-ravioli · 2 years
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Lol so trueeee
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mxjimonerobbie · 2 years
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Reading Review/Log local library
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Book review Blogging Project
Title: The Dream Sleepers and other stories
Author: Patricia Grace
So, I picked out this book for the short stories, to engage with some New Zealand authors and I enjoyed reading these stories by Patricia grace.
The short stories that stood out to me was "It Use to Be Green Once”, “Journey”, “Drifting” and “Kepu”. As culture relates to family and community, this book paints a Māori way of living in rural New Zealand, a contrast to the urban Pākehā imposed society.
In the first Story I will talk about is "It Use to Be Green Once”, where the third person narrative describes their experience of growing in a Māori community.
 Giving an interesting perspective of growing up poor in rural New Zealand.  The car their mum used does not have proper breaks, the togs they wore being second hand, resewing and resized for the new owner. 
 Instead of being able to afford new clothing and not having schools’ bags once they were 14 years of age.
 The perspective, “we never minded our holey fruit at first.  Dad used to pick up the cases of over ripe apples or pears from town that got cheap,” brought up relatable memories of rotting fruit that we had consumed as children.
Overripe fruit that my siblings and family ate by cutting out the bruises to make it edible.  However, in the story became a problem when other children at school pointed out how strange it is to eat holey fruit.
Feeling the children’s embarrassment from witnessed their mum shopping in a car that has no breaks.  Grace’s writing painted an image of their mum yelling out the window at the school bus, gesturing to move out of the way on the one lane bridge.  This created a funny image for her readers to experience.
The car was the only transport they could afford to do shopping on a Wednesday.  It was not until their dad “struck lucky with the lotto” could they afford their own school bags and nicer food.  To afford A “shiny green Chevrolet” and modernised everything in the farm shed to make their farm work easier.  The luck to win money to help with the material conditions, to make life and work easier and enjoyable.
In the second short story that structed out to me was Journey. In this story the narrators 71-year-old uncle goes on a commute to Pōneke by taxi and train.  Commuting to the Pākehā government to negotiate Māori land rights, Grace paints a contrasting image of both urban and rural New Zealand. The mention of the Boulcott street cemetery in central Pōneke, “where they’d bulldozed all the bones and put in the new motorway,”  means there’s no security for the dead to have a secure home to lay to rest.  The urban development of Pōneke led to their uncle in the end telling his relatives to, “Burn me up I tell you it’s not safe in the ground I tell you.”  Bringing up the different cultural attitudes to death and land almost not caring about the past to pave way a shortcut for the motorcar.  That links into Graces perspective of the difference between Māori and Pākehā cultural perspective surrounding the use of land.
In the third short story I want to talk about Drifting Uncle Kepa takes Mereana and Lizzie out fishing in a dinghy, trying to capture Tarakihi while Mereana got sick.  A male relative and two female relatives going out fishing, from a western Pākehā perspective is a bonding experience usually portrayed with young boys and their old man.  Grace painted the culture contrast with the connection of fishing that is bonding with relatives as an experience of being in the ocean.  Gender should not play a role in bonding with relatives when going out to experience fishing on a dinghy.
Understand, I am pointing out the contrast of the setting of fishing in a dinghy, with the western portrayal of fishing in a dinghy being portrayed as a bonding experience with father and son.  While Graces portrays this as a bonding experience with the old and future generation, bonding with relatives regardless of gender.  Describing the experience going fishing in the ocean and a cultural connection to the past.   Grace revealing a sweet bonding memory these characters had with their uncle.
The final short story I will talk about Kepu, the author shows the niblings' joy in seeing their family relative from overseas, speculating who will get the monkey from their visiting uncle. Grace depicting the children’s imagination going wild over having a monkey from overseas was sweet.  In the end of this story, he revealed the fun, he had spending time with his niblings instead of his own children in Australia.  I have heard my own friends talked about how they enjoy spending time with niblings and other people’s children more, instead of their own children because they do not have to worry about the responsibility. Always asking for lollies or always expecting a gift from them when they visit.
I am glad I picked out this book to engage with New Zealand authors and I think approaching them through short stories.  It is a good way to get into their creative writing and cultural perspective.
I related to some of the stories as I grew up in New Zealand with the connection of community, family, and small joys in life.  Despite the material conditions of not being able to afford essential items.
The context of the work reflected the mid-20th century New Zealand, with mass rural to urban migration of Māori to work in the city and overseas for their families.  To assimilate into western Pākehā society that alienated a whole generation of Māori in New Zealand.  Only now are they regaining their cultural links to Te Ao Māori.
This book review is a series of book reviews from the local library, a community asset and I would encourage people to start by reading local authors such as their short stories.  I will look more into Patricia Grace’s longer works as her writing is immersive and joyful to read.
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redshade · 2 years
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cardfile · 2 months
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Library management has become increasingly complex and challenging Institutional, societal, and technological changes have produced strong pressures for libraries to change the way they deal with their client groups, their governing bodies, and their internal operations.
The most obvious pressure for change is the altered library economy. The recent high rate of Inflation, the need to bring library salaries closer those of similar professions, and the dramatic Increase in costs of library materials have moved libraries from the period of growth that characterized the 1960s, to a period of stabilization and In many cases, decline. However, the economic troubles that beset libraries have some positive Implications. Libraries have been forced to re-examine and redefine their roles and to develop new systems and procedures for fulfilling those roles. And while the struggle to adapt to the new library economy continues substantive advancements have been made.
A second factor faced by most larger libraries is the dramatic change in the physical and organizational dimensions of libraries since the late 1940s. The amount of world publishing has grown exponentially during this period, and major academic and research libraries have attempted to maintain collection strengths by radically Increasing the size of their collections. This has led to multi-million dollar budgets, large staffs, new buildings, and Increased organizational complexity. The managerial process in turn has bad to become more sophisticated, more technical, and less directly personal in order to control this rapid growth. Managers have focused on the building and control of major research collections. The currently emerging period of retrenchment or decline offers new challenges requiring new organizational and managerial responses.
Another pressure fix change involves libraries' client groups, which have expanded in terms of diversified interests and have increased the intensity of their. demands. As a result, libraries' service requirements have tended to increase in both dimension and areas of specialization while net available resources have declined. A partial response to these pressures has been found In technological developments, which have produced at least potential for reduced costs in processing and cataloging materials and in operating some service functions such as circulation. But-organizational responses with more immediate and substantive impact still are required.
Finally, the changes in staffs' expectations and demands regarding their role In library organizations have forced management to move toward more open organizations. Library managers, like managers in other enterprises, find It Increasingly difficult to maintain control with traditional management styles Staff are demanding increased organizational attention to their personal and professional needs and are developing mechanisms for contributing meaningfully to organizational change and renewal. While this trend offers opportunities lor creative, positive change, it also creates' tensions and frustrations for library managers accustomed to more traditional modes of accountability, authority, responsibility, and decision-making.
The existence ol these pressures lor change is amply illustrated in library management literature. And while there are no final answers, the existence of these pressures and the profession's response to them have greatiy enriched the literature and have expanded the practitioner's understanding ol both the limits and the possibilities of dealing with the fundamental issues lacing library managers Approaches to these fundamental issues can be grouped in the following general categories management ol human resources.
— LIBRARY MANAGEMENT IN THE 1970'S. SUMMARY OF ISSUES AND SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1977
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ur-daily-inspiration · 2 months
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I’m no longer fucking asking, you are going to support your local library. Even if you don’t/can’t leave the house, some have online registration. You can get E-books. You can get free audiobooks if reading ain’t your thing. Libraries are fucking incredible. You are going to support them.
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