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As a library, we're not here to judge, we're here to help
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wtf who will go to library and read a book about rape or hiv while they are still nervous or tramtized by it? shit makes no sense. You will either search the internet or see a therapist.
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Dewey gang represent
Library of Congress is better because Melvil Dewey sucked and also all bible classifications start with the letters BS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Classification
Hey, you leave us to our dead classification system! Go hassle the latin scholars!
Yeahhh we're gonna need a 741.6 as well...
But for real, things like this are great. Local elections ALWAYS matter. Just an unfortunately large amount more than ever.
In order for things like this to keep being offered, please keep an eye on your local library's board and director. Ours are terrible, and gleefully destroying all our similar initiatives... Recent events have them feeling very empowered to do so.
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Defunded by some Trumpist stooge in 3... 2...
Our state is trying. The trash have some coward called 'Book Ban dan'. The coward doesn't like free speech and has the morals of a serial killer. He is just working his way up to the name 'Book Burning dan' Trash gravitates toward power and there are no checks and balances left for that. That idiot is selling that books about 'the gay' are making people that way. I wonder what book he read that made him a spineless coward?
My state has a 'Ron' but otherwise I'd have suspected they were the same person, based on the description.
Hello Librarian, I'm looking for a book about wanking. Can you help me?
Be more specific dear, is it more focus on addiction/medical field, porn/entertainment field, or fetish/farming field ?
First of all, that's almost exactly how that conversation would probably go. Librarians are amazing.
Second, contrary to popular belief, masturbation is not recognized as a pathway to addiction by Psychology (neither are porn use and sex).
I know you were just doing the funny, but the internet should stop repeating this baseless idea invented by purity culture fanatics, even in jest.
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Looking for more of a technical manual
I want to be tied up and milked like a dairy cow, so farming
Oh good, books on how to bully. We don't want folks to lose their technique.
Trying to decide which anxiety DDC to look at first would give me anxiety lol.
I had to look it up:
152.4 Psychology > Perception, movement, emotions, drives > Emotions and feelings
155.5 Psychology > Perception, movement, emotions, drives > Psychology of young adults
616.8 Medical sciences and medicine > Diseases > Diseases of the nervous system and mental disorders
the single most important reason for libraries to be freely accessible...maybe why certain folks want them to go away
If libraries didn't already exist, to people in the USA they'd sound like some kind of socialist fever dream.
A place where anybody can go to borrow media for free? Paid with my tax dollars?
I say this all the time! I use it to try to discredit conservatives when they make up reasons why we can't have good things. Like, look, you love the library, and you know conservatives would make up all sorts of reasons why it couldn't ever work. When they're going on about how free buses (or whatever) couldn't work, it's the same
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What handy list of words trump is about to ban
Given the sub, I was prepared to be surprised that Solarpunk was one of these difficult topics.
Not to discredit this but I feel like maybe there should be a directory about all topics with shelf numbers and not just about hard to talk about topics?
As a library, you should give me a directory where I can find anything I want. And these topics could be included in that one directory and not singled out in the middle where anyone looking at it can be targeted by some fucking bigot.
Have you... never been to a library?
It's just the Dewey Decimal System, so you could look up whatever topic you like to find what it would be classified under. There's thousands of topics that are covered here - there's a reason it's used for every non-fiction clarification in a library - that would be far too numerous to list on a single shelf listing. This library has chosen to prioritize the awkward questions as a way to help someone who otherwise may not know how to get help.
Alternatively, most libraries have a catalogue you can search by keyword and it will give you book results which will let you know where they are on the shelves. But again, that requires you to know that the catalogue exists and how to use it. It's always going to be easier to ask a librarian, who can make sure you find something to help.
The reference librarian is your friend...
If someone is going to single you out for looking at list that includes "cancer", "divorce" and "loss of a parent" they didn't need a reason to target you in the first place.
And there generally is, most libraries have a catalogue or at least a directory explaining the numbering system at a topic level. Thing is, this sign doesn't just help people come to the library wanting help with these things. It helps people in the library who are experiencing this and didn't know they could find a book to help them.
Hell some people don't even know they need help with these things until someone offers.
Yes, but any librarian you might ask for the directory, is going to ask you what you are looking for.
Not if im crippled with social phobias, or dont want to bother a busy person at their desk. Also, the librarian at our school 30 years ago was an evil bitch which made me swear off reading books altogether.
Wait ... You don't read books?
Every library I've been to in the past decade has had computers everywhere that can search their catalog, and even check it out yourself.
The librarian at your school 30 years ago probably also taught you about the card catalogue and the Dewey Decimal System.
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god I love librarians.
god I love librarians.
