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A question for the librarians here. Is there a particular reason why a bunch of police would come to remove someone sitting at a public computer? I saw that happen a while ago. It was an older asian lady, and they all politely swooped in around her, waiting until she gathered all her stuff to go with them. Actual police, not campus police. Uploading torrents? Dangerous porns? Download roms? It was pretty weird.
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Here's a weird incident at a local library that I just remembered. I spent the summer loitering at a library to a) get out of the house from my siblings and b) be somewhere cooler than 70F. There's a part of every library that is the designated reading area. For that library it was deep inside, past the check out counters and behind a set of stacks. For the most part, you were hidden from the rest of the library and the counters, but the library employees walked through the stacks often enough that it wasn't a totally unsupervised area. If you were attentive and you sat at the reading desks long enough you would occasionally hear paper tearing or an kind of CHHHRRKK sound. I heard it and chalked it up to the librarians doing something with books. Until one day I mentioned it to a library worker and they said, "yeah, someone's been slicing books out of their spines and taking chunks of book out of here. We found some book cover and spines stuffed behind some magazine folders."  I don't know what that person was doing with all book pages but no spine or covers. I don't think they were caught, but it's been several years. I don't get it.
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Nov 6, 2018 20:18
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Is this real or is this a tumblr shitpost? Do library staff really get trained on this program?? Is the Knowledge Keeper really real???quote:nest
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Sep 7, 2019 06:17
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After reading about creeps in this thread...quote:Ultimately, the team chose specially-manufactured steel grates from Poland’s Progress Architektura with gaps big enough to allow air to circulate in the main enclosure (more solid flooring with similar attributes proved too pricey). The super see-through material, Tschapeller said, challenges the idea of the floor as most stable elements in architecture. When I told him that I could see clear up into the stacks at other students, he urged visitors to respect each other—no creeping permitted. This is not friendly to anyone wearing dresses, much less niqabs and other such clothing. You can see the slats in the top right of this image:  And if you zoom in on this image:  You can absolutely see up skirts. Not much may be visible, but that's not the point at all of peeping toms and other creeps. Plus, creeps could just say 'oh I was looking at books on the top shelf, that's all, I didn't mean to follow the person above me constantly around, staring! tee hee!]
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Dec 24, 2019 21:00
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It's fine. The snow slush that's tracked in via boots and shoes will drop down through the slats and soak the books, preventing any serious fire damage.  Water and snow salt damage, however....
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Dec 28, 2019 21:47
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Remember this library?Powered Descent posted:Found a few more picture's of Cornell's new hell library for the thread's enjoyment. In a twist of fate, it's the perfect library for pandemics. The open grating allows heat to flow through easily. Just crank up the thermostat to 10,000 degrees celsius, set a timer for like, three days? And everything inside will be thoroughly sterilized! Genius!
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Apr 20, 2020 19:21
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I think the thing about people being against library book weeding is that they don't understand the books are public property. As opposed to their own private collection of books. A whole lot of people are touching them, getting them filthy, making them breeding grounds for some pretty gross stuff. Even if it's not obviously filthy, it will be at some point. And that poo poo's gotta go. Is it a urban legend that there's traces of stds on books? I swear I read an old fearmongering article, but I think it mentioned Twilight. So eye roll, it might be misogyny about Girl Books. [and not, you know, the hosed up domestic abuse parts of that series]
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Aug 13, 2021 05:22
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Question for the lilbrarians. Do you care if people not from your area* register for library cards to use online? I have learned this is a Thing which is very controversial. *eg out of country or state, or even county.
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Jan 7, 2023 03:13
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Hm. I see. Thank you. I understood that online check outs and other services would interfere with local library users, but not the greater extent of the situation. You know, behind the scenes with regards to how the services are set up. Not to mention copyright issues. Hopefully people are faking their locations so you won't get into trouble?? I suppose if money is the problem, piracy might be better than getting foreign libraries in trouble lie this.
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Jan 7, 2023 04:39
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THE PEDOPHILE OBSESSED WITH JODIE FOSTER?? I didn't realize he's still alive. Hope he's better about many things.
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