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Hey baby, wanna see my sewing machine? I can add a gusset anywhere you want.
Forget about gussets, I can offer pockets
Ha. Give a lady something she really wants and you’re in.
Renting a sewing machine from the library
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#72Socialist wet dream. In reality someone has to pay for all these adults wasting time instead of working for a living.
I know this is supposed to be sarcastic, but This is actually a great framing for why we should love our libraries.
They’re decidedly NOT productive to business. They’re yours as a person. They’re your time, your leisure, your enrichment.
I suppose they’re productive to business in the long run because the create more thoughtful and effective people so maybe they’re not all good.
Still, a good reason to lean into them.
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#73there's things like "tool libraries" and it might be good to see more lending beyond books; some of the libraries I've seen have morphed more into like makerspaces and/or meeting spaces rather than just places to get books
Tool libraries rock, i think this model could work really well for lots of things especially in big cities. I am blessed with a huge apartment but even i have to make decisions about what tools to keep around given the space. Yeah i could buy something from harbor freight and use it once and donate to the thrift store, but how much better if my neighbors and i could just share a big collection of stuff we all might n…
There's at least one in Melbourne, Australia (near the CBD) too: https://www.brunswicktoollibrary.org
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#75Why do the pictures with this article feel so weird? Like, the first one is of a guy in Finland reading a book with an English title while standing in front of a shelf full of books with English titles.
There is lots of English/Swedish books in average Finnish library.
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#76cool
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#77My library has something similar. Sewing and embroidering machines, 3D printers and even a CNC machine. Most are free to use as long as you bring the material, the only one that I can remember having a cost is the laser cutter but even then it was under 10 bucks an hour. They have a bunch of other things like being able to check out a pass the the state parks and some museum passes. This is the Charleston County libr…
The Greene County Ohio Public Library (Xenia, OH) did something like this a few years ago and other libraries in the area (Dayton Metro and Troy-Miami County) started similar spaces, too. They all have a similar array of machines-- CNC, 3D printing, dye sub printing, laser engravers, vinyl cutters, sewing and embroidery, video and photo editing, etc. It's amazing to me that within a five year timespan all of this became available to anybody in the community for the cost of materials.
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#79Libraries around me have just become a homeless shelter. Pretty sad because the buildings themselves are actually quite nice and I'd use them often if it weren't for the high likelihood of being harassed.
You mean being asked for spare change makes you avoid that library? Why not just give them your change?
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#80I am not sure I like the direction the modern libraries are taking.
Libraries should be places where people pickup books and read them, that's it.
They should not be community centers, DYI hobby centers, convention/exhibition places.
I feel they have been co-opted by people who have no interest in knowledge acquisition.