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Isn’t it also a point that a Finnish library desires to offer a free, public, commonwealth community center where people can break through the Bowling Alone syn
by himom 8y ago
Isn’t it also a point that a Finnish library desires to offer a free, public, commonwealth community center where people can break through the Bowling Alone syndrome of commerial, isolated, glowing screen head-down solitude, rather than just peruse a pile of books that are probably available on said glowing box? Sure, there are few areas of libraries to have conversations apart from meeting rooms, but at least people can have a place to be in closer proximity to others and hopefully propinquity that doesn’t involve shopping or eating.
It’s like Iceland have baths. The US has coffee shops (was shopping malls). Does Finland have libraries for this purpose?