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winter-rabbit-2: sarahthecoat: aethelflaedladyofmercia: fuckingconversations:stevviefox: peneigh-dzredfohl: Can everyone who reads this PLEASE reblog it?!?!? Libraries literally saved my life as a child!Being abused at home, bullied at school and lost in the world, the library and all the books I could escape to the most amazing worlds, kept me alive!I would walk to the library, and spend all day, from 10 am to 9 pm reading there!! I got special awards for how many books I read, I wrote little blurbs on why i loved the books (probably why I love to BETA and do ARCs) PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE Just hit the green arrows and the reblog!!!As a 50 year old woman, the library offers me so much. Digital art pads to borrow, 3D printing, book clubs that are face to face (yeah, the introvert likes face to face because a moderator will stomp on anyone getting snarky)New books in LARGE PRINT! I’m visually challenged and as much as I love my kindle, The feel of a real book in my hands will always be a beloved feeling!Our library also has quarterly books sales of almost free books!! For 5$USD we get in a day early and can buy as many as we want. Anyone else has to wait and there is a limit for the first 2 days. Also many, many libraries have inter library loan(it may be called something different). This means if they don’t have the item you want, they can get it for you. This may include photocopy/pdf of articles. This can also include along with books and DVDs, microfilm/fiche which is also a huge resource. Check around for libraries that are listed as depositories if you want to look at government documents. Remember that many colleges and universities have open stacks for the public. You will likely have to pay a membership fee but you will get to stuff. My library is a tiny town. For some reason it has a film studio space with lights and mics and a little editing booth setup for voice overs, and a green screen. It also has a room dedicated to a fleet of 3D printers, a laser etcher, and a laser wood CUTTER. Plus FREE classes to learn how to use all that equipment! Libraries are amazing!I spent so much time in my local library as a kid, just devouring entire series. The teen section had a lot of cool old books, too, like where else is someone going to get a collection of obscure scifi short stories from the 60s in the pre-Internet days? I love just wandering around and seeing the different sections, just seeing all the different books there are to read can be so relaxing. It was my go-to study space in college and grad school, to get away from noisy roommates. It was the main place I went to get out of the apartment the first time I was unemployed and just needed to be somewhere other than in front of my computer watching old Doctor Who episodes for the fifteenth time. It’s been a great place to bring the niece and nephews as they start to come out into the world again. (Try not to think about the fact that the younger ones have now spent half their life under Covid.)(But pls I’m begging y’all respect the quiet study spaces! People who can’t tolerate noise also deserve to have a space where they can relax!) libraries are the best. Can we get someone who knows what they are doing to do an image description? That’s a lot of words people aren’t getting, -- source link