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In the UK we have seen libraries falling like dominos in the "austerity" (post financial crash bank-welfare) era to pay for the failures of the bankers. Those
by mellosouls 3y ago
In the UK we have seen libraries falling like dominos in the "austerity" (post financial crash bank-welfare) era to pay for the failures of the bankers.
Those that remain open are often turned into community hubs which while sounding nice on paper don't always sound nice in reality with screaming kids and zumba classes, etc; the end result of often being a rather rather un-library-like ambience.
Shhhhh!
- domh 3y agoMy library is thankfully still pretty good, but it has been re-branded as a "Discovery Centre" whatever that means. Normally has a good selection of books, helpful staff and they even put on a regular schedule of kids nursery rhyme classes which are good fun for the little ones! The app however has been outsourced to "BorrowBox" (https://www.borrowbox.com/ https://www.borrowbox.com/) which is meh, but I can't exactly blame them for not wanting to create and maintain their own app.