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[Enufstuff]

@Group 5 minus 1  Our large public library has a lower level

                just for children. I signed my children up for some of the library activities and programs when the were little.

 Back then, children were not noisy or rambunctious, even at

the children's library.

  I can understand why you would not want to go there. Children could still be taught how to behave in a library.

The library should have hours to accommodate adults only.

 I have always loved the library, but have not gone there since Covid. I just buy books on Amazon. I also only read real books.  But for research, I enjoy using the internet.

[stevieb]

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@Group 5 minus 1 wrote:

Yeah, I do. And I remember when you had to be quiet in the library.

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I miss the quiet part... You go to the library now and it seems like anything goes, and there's always a noisy kid...

[Sooner]

When I went to college there was the library, then there was THE LIBRARY--a bar across from campus. . .Boomer Sooner.  

[Jk9]

Holy Cow!  That takes me back to elementary school days.  I loved that system and could look up anything.  I volunteered to file books in the library.  Still love the smell of a library.  It's such a pleasant atmosphere.

[Desertdi]

@Enufstuff 

I meant "waste of time"...in the literal meaning that you had to travel to the library in the "old days" (sometimes to a different library from your own) as opposed to sitting down at your home computer and getting your information in a flash.

[Kachina624]

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@Goldengate8361 wrote:

There is something wonderful about getting lost in the stacks for hours....visiting sections of the library that you'd never "google." 

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@Goldengate8361.  Same as on a computer.  You can easily go "down the rabbit hole" and lose yourself for hours, forgetting what you were originally seeking.

[Group 5 minus 1]

Thanks to all for your replies about the noise.

[Cakers3]

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@Goldengate8361 wrote:

There is something wonderful about getting lost in the stacks for hours....visiting sections of the library that you'd never "google." 

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@Goldengate8361  I agree 💯.

I could spend hours at a library and at bookstores.

[Cakers3]

There was no Internet in grad school. I would get the house settled at night and head out to the medical school library at night.

Just walk in, the guard never looked up, go through the cards for the topic I needed, go up and pull out the corresponding journals,  take notes at a table or ZEROX a few pages, put the journals back. You could not take them out.

Leave way after midnight back to my car although there were a few hospital personnel around.

Drive home to the cow town where we lived, no cell phone, no OnStar etc.

Never gave it a second thought.

I would not like to Google today although PubMed online is okay.

Plus Google is filled with unreliable sources imo.

[Love orchids]

@Enufstuff   whenever I read your posts I find we have some things in common starting with our first and middle names, which I learned in a post a few months ago where the subject was names and you revealed your name.

i also have a sewing background, and worked in our town library.  I have admired your sewing abilities in your Toni doll outfits.  I had a Toni doll as well, but never made her clothes.

Just thought I would let you know about some of our commonalities. I thought it was interesting.

Hope it was alright to post this here in the library post, as opposed to paging you, although you may not see it here.

From another DM