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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: MOON Ki on April 15, 2016, 08:21:26 AM
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http://www.upworthy.com/check-out-25-breathtaking-libraries-from-all-around-the-world?c=ufb1
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Nothing beats getting your hands on a nice book made of paper. I have also had to revert to borrowing actual DVD's from a video from a video library. It might just be hangups or just an intense attachment to the "real' thing.
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A great place for the book-lover to spend a night:
https://www.gotokyo.org/en/tourists/topics_event/topics/150914/topics.html
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Libraries used to be an amazing place for book lovers, but it isn’t anymore. Public ones, especially in urban areas, have become an occupation of the same breed of degenerate visitors exhausting and misusing valuable library resources and space.
It is sad that when someone needs to use a library computer for a legitimate purpose has to sign in on an electronic wait list because most of the machines are being occupied by YouTube fanatics, flash gamers and social networking zombies.
I haven't been to a public library for a while, but I remember a few years ago trying to work on a school project in a public library. I had to wait 45 minutes to get on a machine to do my research paper and other important things. While walking around, I noticed that a good portion of the computer users were doing absolutely nothing productive with the machines. Another visitor who had noticed the exact same thing tried to report this to a librarian at the service area, and was told that there was nothing that she could do about it.
It is not just about me not being able to use one of the computers that is funded with my tax dollars, but about the decaying atmosphere of libraries today. I remember when folks, both young and old, would go to a library to actually LEARN and would walk out with a stack of books in their arms. These days, libraries are transforming into some full-on arcade-club/social café hybrid, and I have no doubt that if a major TV network or a news magazine program like 20/20 were to film a story about it, tax paying citizens would demand changes.
Free Internet in public libraries is attracting the wrong breed of visitors. Folks that didn't even know what a library was much less care for it now flock to it in droves. These people used to avoid libraries like the plague, now it's their little hangout away from home.
Public libraries should charge visitors an annual fee to use the computer machines. That way, not only would it free up some of the computers by weeding out some of the mongrels that come in regularly to use them but the extra money would help to finance areas of the library that need improvement.