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Re: Renting a sewing machine from the library

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Post by deanc »

yw3410 wrote: post #17
delichon wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I only use it a couple of times per year, and simply threading it is a genuine challenge for me. So is keeping a stich running. People who sew more or have good fine motor skill may just not remember the noob experience. I expect a lot of new renters to have a learning curve to climb.

In the United Kingdom, we learn (maybe past tense, I've no idea if the curriculum has changed) how to use a sewing machine at secondary school.

I’m almost 40 and educated in the UK. I don’t think sewing has been taught in UK schools for quite many generations now - although no idea what the state of affairs is today.

Re: Renting a sewing machine from the library

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stein1946 wrote: post #80

I 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.

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Re: Renting a sewing machine from the library

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Post by deanc »

Havoc wrote: post #37

> 55% of Finns visit libraries at least once a month. Wait what? That seems insanely high even for a progressive society. As a reference point UK is at 30% on YEARLY STATS NOT MONTHLY >In England, 30% of adults aged 16 and over used a public library service at least once in the previous 12 months.

I live in Finland and even I am sceptical of this figure. Maybe that’s because I go once a year.

I will say it’s very very common for folks to use the library for its primary purpose of renting books - which of course requires a visit twice in a month - once to collect and once to return.

Re: Renting a sewing machine from the library

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Post by fragmede »

deanc wrote: post #93
Havoc wrote: post #37

> 55% of Finns visit libraries at least once a month. Wait what? That seems insanely high even for a progressive society. As a reference point UK is at 30% on YEARLY STATS NOT MONTHLY >In England, 30% of adults aged 16 and over used a public library service at least once in the previous 12 months.

I live in Finland and even I am sceptical of this figure. Maybe that’s because I go once a year. I will say it’s very very common for folks to use the library for its primary purpose of renting books - which of course requires a visit twice in a month - once to collect and once to return.

On the return trip, you collect another set of books, making it a habit.

Re: Renting a sewing machine from the library

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Post by fragmede »

deanc wrote: post #93
Havoc wrote: post #37

> 55% of Finns visit libraries at least once a month. Wait what? That seems insanely high even for a progressive society. As a reference point UK is at 30% on YEARLY STATS NOT MONTHLY >In England, 30% of adults aged 16 and over used a public library service at least once in the previous 12 months.

I live in Finland and even I am sceptical of this figure. Maybe that’s because I go once a year. I will say it’s very very common for folks to use the library for its primary purpose of renting books - which of course requires a visit twice in a month - once to collect and once to return.

On the return trip, you collect another set of books, which you then also have to return in two weeks.

Re: Renting a sewing machine from the library

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Post by darkvertex »

The main library here in Montreal has a sick makerspace with 3D printers (plastic and resin), wood CNC machines, a digital embroidery machine, button maker, shirt press, hole driller, laser cutter, vacuform and vinyl cutter: https://square.banq.qc.ca/fablab

It's a pretty dope library. They also let you borrow movies, videogames for all consoles and even board games, vinyl records and a few music instruments.

Re: Renting a sewing machine from the library

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Post by vasco »

TurdF3rguson wrote: post #70
hsuduebc2 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, that's exactly what you want in library. I understand it's tough for them but some of the homeless people are not people you enjoy you want to be around. I don't understand this need to spread this sentiment.

You will encounter homeless people in libraries, because it's one of the few public spaces that won't kick them out. Your reaction to that shouldn't be to hate and avoid libraries though. It should be to appreciate them more.

The guy didn't said he hated it, you did. He just said he avoided it. I would too. The same way I wouldn't want to hang out at a homeless shelter (and why many homeless themselves avoid any places with many other homeless people).

Re: Renting a sewing machine from the library

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Post by queenkjuul »

p1dda wrote: post #41

Socialist wet dream. In reality someone has to pay for all these adults wasting time instead of working for a living.

Hilarious. Tool libraries exist and are quite successful here in capitalist US of A (and, apparently, in capitalist Finland. You didn't think they were communists or something, did you?)

Re: Renting a sewing machine from the library

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Post by ggandhi »

I signed my daughter up for a library card when she was two. She can't read yet.

I believed you can't teach a child to love libraries. You keep taking them, and let the room do the rest. That room do wonders and it did that to me and I am sure will do that to her too.

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