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  • August 27, 2008 at 6:33 pm #40201
    Alassiel
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    Well, since we were getting off-topic on the “Running out of books” thread, here’s the library thread.

    Alyosha, your library lets you have $30 in fines?????!!!!! My library used to let us have maybe $10, but they have a new computer system now. It won’t let you check out or renew anything if there is over $5 on the whole family’s cards combined. Of course, my librarians are so good to me, they will go the round-about difficult way to do something in the system so I can still check out books. I love my librarians! :D

    August 27, 2008 at 8:20 pm #43270
    Alyosha
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    Wow…how very cruel of your system! (And how very nice of your librarians–the ones that know us do that, the ones that don’t [yet] are Javert-like in their adherence to the Rules.)

    jordan – 20 hours ago  » 

    LoL @ Alyosha! What’s with setting books on fire? *is curious* This thread is getting WAY off-topic. When you answer, why don’t you start a new thread about library fines and such?

    It’s not nearly as exciting as it sounds, unfortunately. A relation who wishes to remain nameless was bringing home our usual Brobdingnagian stack of books one day and dropped one of mine in a puddle. He put it in the microwave to dry it but there was metal on the spine, under the cover, and somehow something ended up blackened and scorched. I don’t think it actually burst into flames though that spectacle would have been quite worth it, as the book turned out to be some feminist politically correct pseudo-historical fiction affair.

    August 27, 2008 at 10:55 pm #43271
    Alassiel
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    Bet that was an interesting story to explain to the librarians…

    August 28, 2008 at 2:51 pm #43272
    Pip
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    I dunno that we’ve ever had any books destoyed like that.

    Alyosha, what were you doing with a book like that??!! *shocked gasps* Since this thread is for libraries, do y’all have an upstairs and downstairs? Like upstairs is for kids and teens and downstairs is for adults? We do, and I spend equal time in both adult (mainly classics, ahem) and kids AND teens!

    August 28, 2008 at 3:09 pm #43273
    Jordan
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    I have a card that allows me to use two libraries in the same branch. The nearest one (I can ride a bike to it) is small, and has no upstairs. They recently added a larger wing to expand the children’s section, though.

    The other one has an upstairs where all the children’s books reside, and then the teen and adult books end up on the ground floor. There’s also a mysterious “B” level on the elevator, but of course, that button requires a key… :D

    August 28, 2008 at 3:20 pm #43274
    Owan
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    Our library is a very small one room deal. They want to and have talked about adding on, but who knows when that’ll gappen.

    August 28, 2008 at 3:28 pm #43275
    Sarah
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    Perhaps it is a top secret bakery for employees only, Jordan. :D

    August 28, 2008 at 4:01 pm #43276
    Alassiel
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    Yup, our library has two floors- top for adults, and bottom for kids. I spend most of my time in the kids.

    August 28, 2008 at 4:01 pm #43277
    Ben
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    I think it stands for “Bombs”.

    August 28, 2008 at 4:04 pm #43278
    Alassiel
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    Maybe someday one of the librarians will accidentally leave the key sitting around, and you can check out the mysterious level and discover a fascinating story.

    August 28, 2008 at 4:12 pm #43279
    Sarah
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    That might make a good story for a book… the mysterious level…

    August 28, 2008 at 7:56 pm #43280
    monkeygal693
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    hahaha you guys are all crazy! My library is stupid (besides that fact that it has wonderful books!) We have to drive 45 minutes away in order to use the library! The other two that are closer, we were going to have to pay a CRAZY amount of money so we could get a ‘new’ card, just to get to use it! So we use the old card farther away. The far-away library is big, but it stupid because I can’t enter any of the contests/reading programs/”place a hold” (which I sneak around 8) heheh), only because I live so far away. Also they have a TON of game nights for the teens. How strange is it for a library for cryin out loud, to hold gamecube, Wii, and playstation nights? Its a library for BOOKS!!!

    Ah. I feel better.

    August 28, 2008 at 9:22 pm #43281
    Sarah
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    Game nights? That’s is strange!

    August 28, 2008 at 9:31 pm #43282
    Alassiel
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    I think our library had something similar once or twice.

    August 28, 2008 at 9:56 pm #43283
    Alyosha
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    LOL. Yes, do let us know if you ever discover what highly classified information is hidden behind the mysterious B.

    Some of the libraries around here have Wiis, computer games, all of those brain-rotting amusements also, and make such a huge deal over them…if they’re trying to get kids to visit the library more I guess it works, but that’s the sort of thing that makes me despair for the future of my generation.

    Pip – 7 hours ago  » 

    I dunno that we’ve ever had any books destoyed like that.

    Alyosha, what were you doing with a book like that??!! *shocked gasps*

    Because I was a fool and ordered all the books marked “19th century Napoleonic warfare” without looking up any reviews online. *bewails her own stupidity*

    None of my libraries have more than one floor, but all of them have a kids’ section, a teen section, and an adult section. I get a lot of books from the kids’ section, get mostly nonfiction from the adults’ section (or order the books beforehand) and go into the teen section only when I need a particular book, rushing back out as quickly as possible in hopes of escaping detection. (The contents [in general] of those shelves are another thing that causes despair.)

    *hopes she doesn’t sound too snobbish*

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