My library just started having clippings from house plants. You can take one to grow at home or leave clippings of your own! They also have tablets for kids to borrow, games, puzzles, American girl dolls and clothes, even a ukulele you can borrow!
I don’t think many people realize it isn’t even always safe to be a librarian. When there’s intense weather like snow, rain, cold…. Transients may walk in to get out of the weather. And of course they’re welcomed like any patron, as long as they behave appropriately. But I’ve seen a few times when someone was obviously mentally ill, they acted out and were potentially violent, and really loud. And I talked to the librarian about it. Those guys scared me. Gotta admire the staff there. I don’t think that’s what they went to school for,
As to dinosaurs not reading and being extinct: Jellyfish have been around for over 800 million years without a brain. That should give hope to some people.
When I was much younger (18 or 19) I used to bike to the library, check out my books, and sit on a nearby lawn (probably City Hall) to lie down on the grass and read.
The 'Procrastination' display reminded me of a display I saw in the window of an art bookshop some years ago. Three shelves that were completely empty apart from a single small book placed dead centre. Its title was "Minimalism". 😄
4:47 ... This is the BEST idea I have ever seen in a library. I worked in a Library for over 8 years, never seen anything like this. I volunteer at my library now. Definitely bringing this idea to them.
Our local cafe does this as a fundraiser with gently-used books. You can purchase a hot drink and a "blind date book" for $5, and the proceeds go to whatever charity they're supporting that month.
The reading dog is a great idea! So many kids who have reading difficulties don't want to read in front of others. A dog (or other animal for that matter) would be a fantastic solution.
I worked in a bookstore chain during the holidays, I always got there a few minutes before I had to punch in. I would walk through the whole store looking at everything, new end cap displays things like that. One night a woman came in asking for a book and all she could tell us was it was blue. My co-workers at the information desk had no idea how to help her. I excused myself and walked away. I came back with a book and asked her if this was her book. Everyone was shocked when she said yes. I handed her the blue covered book “Pi” It also pays to have a good memory.
I didn’t follow how you knew that pi was the blue book she was looking for. Also, I’m amazed to find out that people come in asking for a book, knowing only the color.
That was amazing. So Many wonderful ideas. My library is small, but has the community puzzle table, the yearbook collection, an "after-school nap until practice" corner (children's section rug), and rentable ukulele. I love my job.❤
Oat libraries get donated books and their Friends of the Library group hold sales. Try them first, you’ll double your usefulness because proceeds go to the library system,
I'm going to be moving near Vancouver at the start of next month! I've been to the city before, but I've never seen that library. I think I'll have to visit and check it out.
The thing that always used to get me was the little kids who'd stand in line sucking on or licking their library card until they had to hand it over to me, and their parents who'd just stand there & watch, wouldn't even stop them...? 😭 Can't imagine what it must be like working circulation desk now in a post-covid world!! 🫣 Like teachers, librarians need very tough immune systems! Working as a librarian &/or council service centre worker you definitely encounter SUCH a range of weird things... 😂 I swear, one could write a book!
@@anna_in_aotearoa3166 I worked in the libraries of my jr. high (yeah, I'm really old) and high school. It never dawned on me why I kept catching colds and stomach bugs until now. Ick. Hmph. And my mother thought I was just being hypochondriacal and seeking attention. No, Mama. I was sick.
My husband used to work at the Main Library at a Major Midwestern University. He has told me about a lobby display created by the Circulation Dept. of all the surprising things found inserted in books. Unused condoms (they immediately bagged and deep-sixed the used ones), nude Polaroids (this was a long time ago), and other oddities. The one which stands out in my mind, however, is the slice of bacon. Yeah, someone just casually used part of their breakfast to mark their place in a book, then just left it there. Can you imagine the greasy mess?
0:56 heh. I tried to volunteer at my local city library one summer but some rule or other prohibited volunteers in the library itself. Our job then was to take any donated books, put anything rare on ebay, pulp anything not hardcover, sort the rest of them by color and sell them by the foot on etsy, then hand the money over to the library proper. Apparently pink and purple covers fetch the best prices. Decided not to volunteer anymore when I asked for clarification on how to recognize the rare books and was told to make sure I only pulled out the rare ones. I asked again how to tell which books were rare, and was told, again, “you pull out the rare ones, I don’t know how to make that any more clear. The rare ones. The ones that are rare.”
I have a PhD in literature, nevertheless I have my bookcase organized according to colour, which truly horrified my friends, but I just seem to like a different approach to order. Nothing is wrong with that, although in a library this approach might be a little baffling.
It can be gorgeous if you have bookshelves like that, but I personally can't imagine not having the books of a series next to each other, in chronological order. I generally organise by genre, but the writer or the topic can be more important.
@@hungariangiraffe6361Yes, for avid readers, it just makes sense! Edith Wharton and Henry James belong together, and marion Zimmer Bradley belongs with Ursula le Guin and Frank Herbert! Like belongs with like!
They were in a hallway so they didn’t ruin the decor. It was the main library so quite nice. The row of booths suggested I thought some pretty nice things: activism possibly, business, calls that are urgent and important, freedom of information obviously, the importance of privacy, as per poor people the mindfulness that not everyone uses the phone to chat with friends all day, a bygone era of New York grittiness and mutual camaraderie. If you will forgive me, the struggle. Anyway those phones are gone. They built a children’s room adjacent because as we all know children are picky about where they read. If I remember right there is a Starbucks and a live tree there. I’m glad soccer moms can have a break.
To be honest, for the most part library for me is a place where I can go to work or study if I'm randomly stuck in another city (and yes, it happened more than once), out of electricity, or when working from home just doesn't work today (I have some ADHD traits). I also just hung out in the university library when I was a student, you can meet a lot of new people there
When I returned to college in my early 40s, I worked part time at Full Circle Bookstore in OKC (the mid-1990s). It was a wonderful bookstore back then. It had 2 wood burning fireplaces and had carafes of 3-4 different hot beverages: coffee, decaf coffee, a flavored coffee and hot chocolate. One day, I actually had a lady ask for "that bestseller in a blue cover"! I explained that I would need either the title or the author's name. She became very mad and said I was stupid. I said, "at least I know what author or title I was looking for. She stomped her way out of the store. I didn't get fired so I guess she finally heard how idiotic her request was.
With all the references to Doctor Who, The TARDIS, and the library that 'has a vault you can go into to talk on your phone', I'm shocked there hasn't been a library, or two, that has a replica of a TARDIS in it to give that option.
8:33 I wish my library had one of those!! I actually own a couple vinyls but genuinely don't have a way to play them... 😅😅😅 I might look into a paper cone and sewing needle soon...
I love the natter table. Sit here if you want conversation with your coffee. Doesn't have to be inside a library, but any coffee shop or similar establishment.
8:22 - unfortunately that's not entirely true, as a German publisher once printed ads on one page of several books. Reading a novel becomes annoying when the next page does not continue the timeline but suggests eating food. 9:30 - I know of a campus library with a garden.
Now in 2024, a TV news item said one library has a wedding dress loan room with more than a hundred wedding dresses. You will be asked if you’ve got a library card, but you don’t need one! (But they hope you’ll get a card!) you don’t even have to return the dress…. They’ve gotten dresses in the mail with very touching notes attached from women who’ve been happily married 50 years. Another library in my state, in a poor rural area, puts their landline phone outside on the porch next to a park bench, for people to use during library hours, because they can’t afford their own phones. A library in Ohio (there’s been recent hatred on the news lately about the Haitian community) recently created a book section for children in the language Haitians speak. And they’ve hired an interpreter to help Haitian adults use the library, navigating the computers, fax machine, etc.
And some libraries have book vans to take books to the kids and adults in less accessible areas. In South America, one librarian, a man, attaches special shelves on either side of his donkey, and takes him on foot through the jungle to rural children and adults!
@@JB-yb4wn “Although Haiti has two official languages, Haitian Creole and French, everyone in Haiti speaks Haitian Creole. Some scholars estimate that approximately 90-95% of the population is monolingual, speaking Haitian Creole.” From guides local govt site
"Dinosaurs didn't read, they are now extinct. Coincidence?" They absolutely loved to read and would've done so for Hours on End every Day, but the Librarians never let go of their NO ANIMALS INSIDE Rule....
4:30 My library has been keeping track of savings for years now. When I log into my library account it tells me I've saved **** $28,069.41**** since 1/1/2021 I suspect they're exaggerating a bit.
The Doctor Who ones were the funniest. And I think my one school did something similar to the noise guide. It did not work for most and worked too well for me.
omg, this happened to me when i worked at a bookstore. this woman NEEDED another copy of a cookbook she had got at our store years before. HOWEVER, she did not know the title, type of cooking, author, etc. BUT the cookbook was black and it was on the top shelf of a bookcase. (note - we switch things around once a year). she demanded i go look for it, so i put her on hold, hung out for 5 minutes, and told her we did not have it. I mean REALLY lady? if she had not been so pissy about it, I would have suspected she was yanking my chain. the mysterious black cookbook.....
6:36 can somebody tell me which character this is becuz i genuinely have no idea ): i watch scary movies but i don't know what it's from and it's bothering me
@yellow pages missing? @red book: my bible had a red book cover, also mao book for everyone and what about teachers class notebooks (containing content-procrastination)? @Book DIYs: not only chairs but also book boards or cabinet or even a building can be made of (recycled unreadable) books material!
Here in Brasília, capital of Brazil, we have shelves with frer books for anyone who want to pick a book to read and give back when they finish eo donate books and magazines.
Same here in New Zealand! They live on street corners or in community centre's or similar, and are often in old defunct fridges because the door seals are good at keeping community library books dry 😝
@@anna_in_aotearoa3166 the shelves placed on the north wing ( Brasília has the shape of a bird) were placed there by the owner of a butcher shop. He also patrcinated one of two free musical shows with great artists twice a year but the shows stopped when covid apoeared and never came back.
I like going to the local library where that one librarian or more there would if need be choose to be acting more like that one character in the movie called,, "Kindergarden Cop" whenever they are not happy at all with what someone is trying to get away with at the time before the police can finally get there.
A library not far from me have a slide to go downstairs and free female sanitary products the bathrooms among other great stuff. The one where my parents live you can take several little sachets of vegetable and flower seeds in the spring and fall months
But what happens if somebody wants to take the book from the seat you've made? Hear all over town there are libraries at bus stops my first thought when it happened was oh this will never take off because people take things and they never returned them and the answer to that was that somebody must have thought exactly what I was thinking because they put a little sign above that says go ahead take a book but please put one back sometime in the future... And thus these libraries have sprouted up everywhere including malls I'd love to send you a picture of this you never believe me.
"Banned" books. Banned where? Not in America. Removing age-inappropriate books from school libraries is not banning them. They are still published, they are still sold, and they can be found at public libraries. If you want your elementary school child to read explicit books about gaheyhey intercourse, buy it yourself.
Who are you to judge what is 'appropriate' for everybody? Mind your business and don t annoy others with your whims. I do not see anything inappropriate in sex, ethero or homo it may be as long as you explain to your children
Never heard of stories when a book was perfectly fine for generations of school students and then a woke found something “inappropriate” and the book is pulled from the shelves? To kill a mockingbird, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Of mice and men, The catcher in the rye, to name a few. Banned in many school districts.
Yes, banned in public libraries. Also soft censorship is a thing, which is where some libraries don't buy books they expect will be controversial. It's sad and scary how the extremists expect a child with questions to not have a resource to get them answered.
Our library has a jigsaw section & you can borrow a puzzle for £2/month. If you didn't finish it, you can renew by phone or online.
My library just started having clippings from house plants. You can take one to grow at home or leave clippings of your own!
They also have tablets for kids to borrow, games, puzzles, American girl dolls and clothes, even a ukulele you can borrow!
Our Art Gallery (Leeds) allows you to loan art work to display at home. I’ll have a Picasso in my little council flat please 😂
I don’t think many people realize it isn’t even always safe to be a librarian. When there’s intense weather like snow, rain, cold…. Transients may walk in to get out of the weather. And of course they’re welcomed like any patron, as long as they behave appropriately. But I’ve seen a few times when someone was obviously mentally ill, they acted out and were potentially violent, and really loud. And I talked to the librarian about it. Those guys scared me. Gotta admire the staff there. I don’t think that’s what they went to school for,
Here its literally 90+% transients 9% children and their parent(s) 1% evryone else and 1 old fogie reading a newspaper.
As to dinosaurs not reading and being extinct:
Jellyfish have been around for over 800 million years without a brain. That should give hope to some people.
Which explains how 20% of the people I know are still alive.
9:28 Mom “Go touch grass” Me ‘goes here, grabs a book and sits on the grass’
When I was much younger (18 or 19) I used to bike to the library, check out my books, and sit on a nearby lawn (probably City Hall) to lie down on the grass and read.
The 'Procrastination' display reminded me of a display I saw in the window of an art bookshop some years ago. Three shelves that were completely empty apart from a single small book placed dead centre. Its title was "Minimalism". 😄
5:33 Guys who have lost their shirts!!! 😂 💀 😂 WHEEZE!!! ❤❤😂😂❤❤
4:47 ... This is the BEST idea I have ever seen in a library. I worked in a Library for over 8 years, never seen anything like this. I volunteer at my library now. Definitely bringing this idea to them.
My old local library used to do that. I want to see what's been recently returned, though. 😂
You absolutely should! I've found some good books that way, and I definitely wouldn't have tried them just reading the blurb on the cover. ^^;
Our local cafe does this as a fundraiser with gently-used books. You can purchase a hot drink and a "blind date book" for $5, and the proceeds go to whatever charity they're supporting that month.
The reading dog is a great idea! So many kids who have reading difficulties don't want to read in front of others. A dog (or other animal for that matter) would be a fantastic solution.
Yeah my library has read to a dog too!
I worked in a bookstore chain during the holidays, I always got there a few minutes before I had to punch in. I would walk through the whole store looking at everything, new end cap displays things like that. One night a woman came in asking for a book and all she could tell us was it was blue. My co-workers at the information desk had no idea how to help her. I excused myself and walked away. I came back with a book and asked her if this was her book. Everyone was shocked when she said yes. I handed her the blue covered book “Pi” It also pays to have a good memory.
I didn’t follow how you knew that pi was the blue book she was looking for. Also, I’m amazed to find out that people come in asking for a book, knowing only the color.
@@ibperson7765 Clearly it was the bluest book that had been on the new end cap displays recently
“Guys who have lost their shirts” real 💀 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love the line underneath and small letters thank goodness the thesaurus survived... I've always said that word sounds like a type of dinosaur.
That was amazing. So Many wonderful ideas. My library is small, but has the community puzzle table, the yearbook collection, an "after-school nap until practice" corner (children's section rug), and rentable ukulele. I love my job.❤
This is... precious.
Maybe there _is_ hope for humanity. ❤️🥰❤️
@4:28 Saved money?! Ha! Do you how much I spend at library book sales?!😂
*libraries not bookstores
@@Malik-Ibi Every library in my area has a sale room or shelves besides the big yearly sale. Even the bookmobile has about 20 or 30 books for sale.
@@Malik-IbiIn the cities that I have lived in (5 cities, so far), every library had a used bookstore selling discards and donated books.
@@Malik-IbiMost libraries I've been to have a section that they put books out to buy for various reasons (too many copies, beaten up, etc)
Oat libraries get donated books and their Friends of the Library group hold sales. Try them first, you’ll double your usefulness because proceeds go to the library system,
The Vancouver Central Library (in BC, Canada) is built to look like the Roman Colosseum! Its really cool.
I'm going to be moving near Vancouver at the start of next month! I've been to the city before, but I've never seen that library. I think I'll have to visit and check it out.
I just looked it up. It looks pretty cool.
This video makes me want to spend the autumn months at my library!
You wouldn’t believe the things librarians find in books that patrons were using as bookmarks, 🤣
The thing that always used to get me was the little kids who'd stand in line sucking on or licking their library card until they had to hand it over to me, and their parents who'd just stand there & watch, wouldn't even stop them...? 😭 Can't imagine what it must be like working circulation desk now in a post-covid world!! 🫣 Like teachers, librarians need very tough immune systems!
Working as a librarian &/or council service centre worker you definitely encounter SUCH a range of weird things... 😂 I swear, one could write a book!
@@anna_in_aotearoa3166 I worked in the libraries of my jr. high (yeah, I'm really old) and high school. It never dawned on me why I kept catching colds and stomach bugs until now. Ick. Hmph. And my mother thought I was just being hypochondriacal and seeking attention. No, Mama. I was sick.
My husband used to work at the Main Library at a Major Midwestern University. He has told me about a lobby display created by the Circulation Dept. of all the surprising things found inserted in books. Unused condoms (they immediately bagged and deep-sixed the used ones), nude Polaroids (this was a long time ago), and other oddities. The one which stands out in my mind, however, is the slice of bacon. Yeah, someone just casually used part of their breakfast to mark their place in a book, then just left it there. Can you imagine the greasy mess?
1:15 4 x Nana + batman = incredible
Took me a minute 🫤
Oh...🎼Nana 🎶Nana Nana 🎵Nana BATMAN!🦇
Can’t describe how happy I was to see the two Doctor Who references.
Same those references made my day😂❤
Oh yes. The Vashta Nerada was fantastic!!!!!!
Me too!
Me too!
0:56 heh. I tried to volunteer at my local city library one summer but some rule or other prohibited volunteers in the library itself. Our job then was to take any donated books, put anything rare on ebay, pulp anything not hardcover, sort the rest of them by color and sell them by the foot on etsy, then hand the money over to the library proper. Apparently pink and purple covers fetch the best prices. Decided not to volunteer anymore when I asked for clarification on how to recognize the rare books and was told to make sure I only pulled out the rare ones. I asked again how to tell which books were rare, and was told, again, “you pull out the rare ones, I don’t know how to make that any more clear. The rare ones. The ones that are rare.”
I have a PhD in literature, nevertheless I have my bookcase organized according to colour, which truly horrified my friends, but I just seem to like a different approach to order. Nothing is wrong with that, although in a library this approach might be a little baffling.
It can be gorgeous if you have bookshelves like that, but I personally can't imagine not having the books of a series next to each other, in chronological order. I generally organise by genre, but the writer or the topic can be more important.
@@hungariangiraffe6361Yes, for avid readers, it just makes sense! Edith Wharton and Henry James belong together, and marion Zimmer Bradley belongs with Ursula le Guin and Frank Herbert! Like belongs with like!
Worked in libraries for a while. Kid came who could only remember 1st word of title ... "The". Found it tho ... it was a pop T.V prog at time. 😏
@@antomort7295 It's such a heartwarming story, thank you for telling me! ❤😄
The Portland Oregon library used to have an absolutely gorgeous row of phone booths you could go in and sit on a little seat and close the door.
They were in a hallway so they didn’t ruin the decor. It was the main library so quite nice. The row of booths suggested I thought some pretty nice things: activism possibly, business, calls that are urgent and important, freedom of information obviously, the importance of privacy, as per poor people the mindfulness that not everyone uses the phone to chat with friends all day, a bygone era of New York grittiness and mutual camaraderie. If you will forgive me, the struggle. Anyway those phones are gone. They built a children’s room adjacent because as we all know children are picky about where they read. If I remember right there is a Starbucks and a live tree there. I’m glad soccer moms can have a break.
7:29 Old-school love letters were HANDWRITTEN, IN CURSIVE!
That Keith guy must have one hell of a lunch, lol.
I LOVE the "chatter with others" table idea. These days, you don't talk with ppl as much. That is a beautiful invitation.
I also like the cake pans section , the art vending machine, and the "Guys who lost their shirts" display, but the table sign wins
Thanks so much for these! Easily my favourite of all such videos. Every one of thrm is delightful.
6:48 Whoever placed that table should be under arrest!
Why?
Because they just killed all perfectionists who watched this video.
Idk, if you ask me that leg looks more Canadian than the other three do
So happy I watched this, thanks for the inspiration
Makes me want to actually visit a library and not just read online. 😂
my local library has signs everywhere saying they will hold the children hostage unless the books are returned
libraries are home away from home when you go on holiday!
To be honest, for the most part library for me is a place where I can go to work or study if I'm randomly stuck in another city (and yes, it happened more than once), out of electricity, or when working from home just doesn't work today (I have some ADHD traits). I also just hung out in the university library when I was a student, you can meet a lot of new people there
When I returned to college in my early 40s, I worked part time at Full Circle Bookstore in OKC (the mid-1990s). It was a wonderful bookstore back then. It had 2 wood burning fireplaces and had carafes of 3-4 different hot beverages: coffee, decaf coffee, a flavored coffee and hot chocolate. One day, I actually had a lady ask for "that bestseller in a blue cover"! I explained that I would need either the title or the author's name. She became very mad and said I was stupid. I said, "at least I know what author or title I was looking for. She stomped her way out of the store. I didn't get fired so I guess she finally heard how idiotic her request was.
5:32 LOL😂😂🤣🤣
Fr tho 🤣
Librarians are awesome. I miss my high school librarian.
Librarians are the best! Thanks for encouraging the gift of reading 📕📗📘📙
I remember a cartoon snippit. ‘Im going to ask you one more time. Do you have the overdue book “we have your child”’
5:53 For those who don't read french, the smaller book is the Little Prince
Thanks for help 😊
Someone noticed... my coment... 🥲
I was going to say the same thing; I'm glad you got to it first! :)
The smaller BIG book was a Little Prince 😜
What a cheek! I bet she’s using it for more than what she’s saying! I can’t believe she had the gall to knock and ask!!!
Max the cat will find his way into the library because he will use his power called “the cute.”
With all the references to Doctor Who, The TARDIS, and the library that 'has a vault you can go into to talk on your phone', I'm shocked there hasn't been a library, or two, that has a replica of a TARDIS in it to give that option.
Even better, I noticed that vault was named 'Cone of Silence'. Someone is a Get Smart fan for sure.
@@moonwatcher99 I didn't catch, that. Thanks, Chief.
@@cannedmusic Missed it by THAT much! 🤣
@@moonwatcher99never seen get smart so i thought i was going to forget i read this reply
@@NiennaFan1 Oh, it's a hoot. It's pure Mel Brooks humor, has a TON of running gags, and some really wacky plots. Best thing ever for comedy!
8:33 I wish my library had one of those!! I actually own a couple vinyls but genuinely don't have a way to play them... 😅😅😅 I might look into a paper cone and sewing needle soon...
I love the natter table. Sit here if you want conversation with your coffee. Doesn't have to be inside a library, but any coffee shop or similar establishment.
I wish my local library had humor like this
Reasons why I wanna be a librarian:
4:11 "Hey! Who turned off the lights?"
3:41 I wish my local library had that!
4:04 what if I have a non-evil penguin?
Nope. Gotta be evil >:}
Then he has you fooled
9:21 I live in Arkansas and I can confirm this...
Wonderful ideas!
wow i would join the community jidsaw puzzle why can't my library has that
Justice for max!
6:48 Stanstead Quebec.
…and you must exit through whichever door you entered, so no border crossing via the library.
8:22 - unfortunately that's not entirely true, as a German publisher once printed ads on one page of several books. Reading a novel becomes annoying when the next page does not continue the timeline but suggests eating food.
9:30 - I know of a campus library with a garden.
i love this💚
My library also has vending machines and a community jigsaw puzzle.
hey sorting those red books out is genuinely helpful but im looking for steele grey.
I read this as "Libertarians" and boy was I confused =))
Now in 2024, a TV news item said one library has a wedding dress loan room with more than a hundred wedding dresses. You will be asked if you’ve got a library card, but you don’t need one! (But they hope you’ll get a card!) you don’t even have to return the dress…. They’ve gotten dresses in the mail with very touching notes attached from women who’ve been happily married 50 years.
Another library in my state, in a poor rural area, puts their landline phone outside on the porch next to a park bench, for people to use during library hours, because they can’t afford their own phones.
A library in Ohio (there’s been recent hatred on the news lately about the Haitian community) recently created a book section for children in the language Haitians speak. And they’ve hired an interpreter to help Haitian adults use the library, navigating the computers, fax machine, etc.
And some libraries have book vans to take books to the kids and adults in less accessible areas. In South America, one librarian, a man, attaches special shelves on either side of his donkey, and takes him on foot through the jungle to rural children and adults!
Im guessing there has not been “hatred” on the news about haitians.
The language that Haitians speak? That's called French. You should check out some geography books.
@@JB-yb4wn “Although Haiti has two official languages, Haitian Creole and French, everyone in Haiti speaks Haitian Creole. Some scholars estimate that approximately 90-95% of the population is monolingual, speaking Haitian Creole.” From guides local govt site
"Dinosaurs didn't read, they are now extinct. Coincidence?"
They absolutely loved to read and would've done so for Hours on End every Day, but the Librarians never let go of their NO ANIMALS INSIDE Rule....
What were the banded books?
Happy bear I just sent you a thumbs up
4:30 My library has been keeping track of savings for years now. When I log into my library account it tells me I've saved **** $28,069.41**** since 1/1/2021
I suspect they're exaggerating a bit.
Not likely an exaggeration if you're an avid reader. Look at the prices on the dust jackets.
The Doctor Who ones were the funniest. And I think my one school did something similar to the noise guide. It did not work for most and worked too well for me.
omg, this happened to me when i worked at a bookstore. this woman NEEDED another copy of a cookbook she had got at our store years before. HOWEVER, she did not know the title, type of cooking, author, etc. BUT the cookbook was black and it was on the top shelf of a bookcase. (note - we switch things around once a year). she demanded i go look for it, so i put her on hold, hung out for 5 minutes, and told her we did not have it.
I mean REALLY lady? if she had not been so pissy about it, I would have suspected she was yanking my chain.
the mysterious black cookbook.....
❤
6:36 can somebody tell me which character this is becuz i genuinely have no idea ): i watch scary movies but i don't know what it's from and it's bothering me
I believe that's Walter White from Breaking Bad...
@@nathan-ja thank you!!!!!!!!!!
I didn't know either! I appreciate the answer
@yellow pages missing?
@red book: my bible had a red book cover, also mao book for everyone and what about teachers class notebooks (containing content-procrastination)?
@Book DIYs: not only chairs but also book boards or cabinet or even a building can be made of (recycled unreadable) books material!
Here in Brasília, capital of Brazil, we have shelves with frer books for anyone who want to pick a book to read and give back when they finish eo donate books and magazines.
Same here in New Zealand! They live on street corners or in community centre's or similar, and are often in old defunct fridges because the door seals are good at keeping community library books dry 😝
@@anna_in_aotearoa3166 the shelves placed on the north wing ( Brasília has the shape of a bird) were placed there by the owner of a butcher shop. He also patrcinated one of two free musical shows with great artists twice a year but the shows stopped when covid apoeared and never came back.
@@anna_in_aotearoa3166we have similar here in the UK, but with disused phone boxes.
@johnleonard9090 That's a cool creative way of repurposing those spaces! 😄 Love it.
@@johnleonard9090 It's great because use something tha already exists and give people acess to books.🙂📚
Ahhh, man...we ain't got nothing like that around here! Don't have to read to know which direction to point a tractor.
Hence the double negative.
@@JB-yb4wn I dun did dat fer a haha.
i dont get the batman thing... at all
It's the musical phrase at the end of the old 1960s Batman TV series intro. Nanananananananana-Batman.
@@adrilongstreet3112 thank you
1:11 can anyone explain the joke, please? Forethanx.
It's how the theme song for the tv show goes: "nana, nana, nana, nana, Batman!"
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I think we should mention the tv show was in the 1960s. Not many young people would know much about it.
I like going to the local library where that one librarian or more there would if need be choose to be acting more like that one character in the movie called,, "Kindergarden Cop" whenever they are not happy at all with what someone is trying to get away with at the time before the police can finally get there.
A library not far from me have a slide to go downstairs and free female sanitary products the bathrooms among other great stuff. The one where my parents live you can take several little sachets of vegetable and flower seeds in the spring and fall months
My library is so boring. :'(
Well maybe you should dance around naked in the main concourse, that will liven things up until the police arrive.
But what happens if somebody wants to take the book from the seat you've made? Hear all over town there are libraries at bus stops my first thought when it happened was oh this will never take off because people take things and they never returned them and the answer to that was that somebody must have thought exactly what I was thinking because they put a little sign above that says go ahead take a book but please put one back sometime in the future... And thus these libraries have sprouted up everywhere including malls I'd love to send you a picture of this you never believe me.
My library also provides access to do free ancestry research. For free!
Well if it is free ancestry research, then it is usually free. Try checking out some English grammar books.
We don’t speak of the vashta nerada 😩
Mein kampf
"Banned" books. Banned where? Not in America. Removing age-inappropriate books from school libraries is not banning them. They are still published, they are still sold, and they can be found at public libraries. If you want your elementary school child to read explicit books about gaheyhey intercourse, buy it yourself.
Who are you to judge what is 'appropriate' for everybody? Mind your business and don t annoy others with your whims. I do not see anything inappropriate in sex, ethero or homo it may be as long as you explain to your children
Or we can read about incest in the bible.
Never heard of stories when a book was perfectly fine for generations of school students and then a woke found something “inappropriate” and the book is pulled from the shelves? To kill a mockingbird, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Of mice and men, The catcher in the rye, to name a few. Banned in many school districts.
Yes, banned in public libraries. Also soft censorship is a thing, which is where some libraries don't buy books they expect will be controversial. It's sad and scary how the extremists expect a child with questions to not have a resource to get them answered.
Music gives you a thumbs down. annoying
Our library has cake pans games and fishing rods we live in Missouri
1:10 I don't get it 😢. Guess I'll never share bookish banter with my librarian now sad🥲
It's a play on the Batman theme tune. Nana, nana, nana, nana, BATMAN! 😊
@@mysticallymerry5523 thanks for the explanation. I didn't get it too. I hardly watch superheroes on screen.😊
Took me a while to get it too.