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But also what if the public library did have a bar in it so I can get smashed while learning new stuff.
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I mean yea, that's what I do at home currently. I just think it'd be cool to maybe meet some new people while doing it.
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Try kava bars. YMMV depending on your location but here in Florida, there are many that are open late where people just hang out, watch movies, play pool, videogames, read, work, etc and they're usually not loud or crowded and they don't serve alcohol
Some libraries, like Austin's Central Library, are centered around that idea.
Driving in my monster truck to get to the library so I can read until 1am
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This is a cool idea!
I would love this. Like another commenter said, after 10 the no talking rule gets rescinded and it turns into a cafe level of speech.
I’d love to just read books with my wife at a library late at night.
Or simply have study areas where the silence is enforced. Rest of the premises just demands calm.
I miss that about college, 24 hour library filled with people. You have to be quiet on the main floors but upstairs was less strict.
The routine of get a coffee, study for a while, go pee and step outside with some friends for a smoke, and grab another coffee on the way in. Rinse and repeat until the sun comes up.
Man not ours. Couldn't say shit anywhere lol.
Even our computer labs weren't too 3rd-spacey.
Man I miss college sometimes tho. Back when I had friends and a life lol
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This is a cool idea, but would significantly increase staffing needs. Where are you going to find librarians who want to work night shift?
Imagine a world where everyone is so familiar with the Dewey Decimal system that fitting in to a library could be as easy as fitting as a bagger at a grocery store. That library science was as commonplace as knowing how to make a gin and tonic. Wait staff now pivots to late-night librarian. 😁
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They mostly are around here
But then homeless people would have a warm safe place to stay! /s
And if people aren't isolated they might get silly ideas about questioning the system.
Especially with all those books around. Better ban books and defund libraries. I wish this weren't how a good chunk of the political right think.
Locally we instead pass laws to put liability on librarians and it's been very successful at destroying libraries.
My local library closes before night time, so I'm on board with the idea of them a library closing late at night.
I don't even need to talk to others, just seeing people there would soothe me and ease loneliness I get from not socialising much.
Neat idea, but most libraries I'm familiar with discourage too much social interaction. Maybe after 10 the "be quiet" rule gets rescinded.
That could work. I think it is an interesting idea to turn libraries into a 3rd space. We need to do something. People are lonely and isolated af.
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They could have a common room where you are showered to talk. But that works cost money of course, we can't possibly afford that.
They could have a common room where you are showered to talk.
Sometimes the best ideas come from typos...
I dunno that sounds a lot like communism
What if we charged people a 'sitting rent'? And if anyone sits down to wait for their friends we call the cops especially if they aren't of the ahem Caucasian persuasion. Heaven forfend humans actually have a 'commons'