Do you believe in libraries?

dugan · 01-21-2016, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by jamison20000e

I see from bus rides some neighbor*\hoods have free libraries for kids, an interesting idea.

Where do you live that free libraries are an unusual thing?!!!

jamison20000e · 01-21-2016, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by dugan

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Originally Posted by jamison20000e

I see from bus rides some neighbor*\hoods have free libraries for kids, an interesting idea.

[/url]Where do you live that free libraries are an unusual thing?!!!

Front yard post libraries by and for the public?!!!!

jamison20000e · 01-21-2016, 02:05 PM

Could put one out and fill it with High Times, (not that like the VCR vs. hollywood we should not progres?

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dugan · 01-21-2016, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by jamison20000e

Front yard post libraries by and for the public?!!!!

Oh yeah, I did see a couple of those in my city.

Keith Hedger · 01-21-2016, 02:19 PM

They are an urban myth

jamison20000e · 01-21-2016, 03:06 PM

Good pun!

frankbell · 01-21-2016, 08:15 PM

I've seen several libraries, so, yes, I believe in them.

I also believe in Bookmobiles. I was once in the belly of a Bookmobile.

jamison20000e · 01-21-2016, 08:21 PM

Bookmobiles.

As a kid that was awesome, just like later in life the Snap-On Tool truck.

jefro · 01-21-2016, 10:04 PM

I can't divide by dewey decimals can I?

jamison20000e · 01-22-2016, 12:08 AM

http://library.mtsu.edu/dewey/decimal.htm

You can use the general facts to divide the less general ones into smaller subcategories...

jamison20000e · 01-22-2016, 12:12 AM

Or, just start ripping pages out?

wpeckham · 01-22-2016, 06:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Arcane

But library also contains fiction alot. So you can not say they are completely trustworthy.

Good question. If we are completely strict we can say they do not exist because we invented the symbolic word for building or place like room but..who knows.

I do not see any reason to reject belief in something's existence based upon words. Words are how we COMMUNICATE, but do not change reality.
Likewise, I believe in movies, knowing that what they portray is not true. (Often, even when inspired by actual events!) I believe in books, even the value in those KNOWN to be fiction. They exist. They have value. Refusing to believe in them would be juvenile, at best. Not that believing everything IN them would be brilliant....

I can believe in something, while believing that it should not be trusted! (Half my high school friends, nearly every politician at EVERY level, and some of the most interesting people I have ever known fit that description!)

dugan · 01-22-2016, 12:08 PM

Would the one person who voted "no" please step up and admit it?

DavidMcCann · 01-22-2016, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by dugan

In my city library, the occult books and the programming books have adjacent dewey decimal number blocks. The selection of both is often small enough that the occult books and the programming books are on the same shelf.

Actually, the occult material is in the 130s. What you've got is mysterious or unauthenticated phenomena at 001, next to the computing at 004-006. The 000 class is so little used that all sorts of stuff gets dumped there. Not like the Library of Congress Classification, where the Bermuda Triangle is under Seafaring and UFOs have their place in Aeronautics!

jamison20000e · 01-22-2016, 01:31 PM

^ I was reading about that when Jefro put his post, I never knew it was locked in like that; makes sense to walk into any library and not be lost.