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On the flip side, these resources are used disproportionately by the poorest, so, y'know, screw em. Replace several cheap staff with a few expensive managers an
by RobertKerans 10y ago
On the flip side, these resources are used disproportionately by the poorest, so, y'know, screw em. Replace several cheap staff with a few expensive managers and some technology that isn't remotely as useful and off we go.
- ianai 10y agoSociety can be such a beautiful thing. But more and more it appears to be a beautiful thing destroying itself.
- hughperkins 10y agoTo be fair, when I was a kid, we didn't have internet. We only had library, and computer journals, the paper kind. Nowadays, for research papers, read arxiv. For news read hackernews. For learning stuff, Google, stack overflow. Fiction? Kindle app.
- jvehent 10y agoUnless you're poor. Then you don't have a computer.
- zaidf 10y agoA lot more poor people have a computer today than ever before. Nothing illustrates this better than seeing the homeless on their iPhones using the Starbucks wifi to access the Internet.
- RobertKerans 10y agoThis is true, and a very, very good thing I think. But it's the prosaic stuff (how do I claim this? Where do I actually look for information? What information will help me? Etc) where having a real person sit and help you is incredibly important.
- Mz 10y agoThat's amusing as I posted this article, I am homeless and I have a laptop, tablet and smartphone. Yes, I spend my days at the library to get charge for my devices, free Wi-Fi and access to public PCs. But I am dirt poor and all my earned income comes via the internet. /PSA
- sciurus 10y agoYep. This comment at metafilter has been discussed here before, I think, but it's worth linking again: http://www.metafilter.com/112698/California-Dreamin#4183210 http://www.metafilter.com/112698/California-Dreamin#4183210
- mr_potato_face 10y agoThank you for linking this. The main article being discussed made me think "okay, so administrivia, book stuff, etc. Actually doesn't sound so bad". This link, however, made me realize how emotionally draining the library can be for everyone involved.
- w__m 10y agoanother fun fact: librarians make change. For example, librarian in Warsaw - 450$ a month. 520$ is somehow considered a "very good pay".