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god I love librarians.
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god I love librarians.
the single most important reason for libraries to be freely accessible...maybe why certain folks want them to go away
In order for things like this to keep being offered, please keep an eye on your local library's board and director. Ours are terrible, and gleefully destroying all our similar initiatives... Recent events have them feeling very empowered to do so.
Also, consider picking up a job like that too or running for a seat on such boards. There's always too few applicants for such roles and extremists have an easy time enacting change.
what exactly do these numbers mean?
Conan the Librarian:
Dewey decimal system for finding books on the shelves.
yeah multiple people have answered it by now
Ah Lemmy, downvoting an honest question. Daddy Reddit would be proud.
Upvoted to offset the stupidity.
As an online community, we're not here to help, we're here to judge.
People were seriously downvoting this? People need to be more aware that what used to be common knowledge is not so common in either younger generations or other parts of the world. We should not discourage people from asking genuine questions.
38 upvotes 1 downvote. Theres always going to be people who downvote things. Could be someone who doesn't realize that system isn't used everywhere, or maybe their app uses a swipe feature they haven't turned off. Sometimes when I scroll down I'll accidentally have it slide left or right and up/downvote something without me ever really noticing it happened. I wouldn't hate on all of Lemmy because 1 downvote though, seems overzealous
books have category numbers and libraries sort their books by this
Where to find the books, shelves are indexed.
So refreshing seeing those words actually used in a public setting. Suicide instead of "self unaliving", rape instead of "grape", etc. Maybe I really am chronically online
Maybe I really am chronically online
Perhaps. It is kind of nice to know that a lot of the drivel we read on these forums doesn't necessarily translate to how people behave in the real world.
I've gotten way better at identifying users whose brains are "shot" from spending too much time on social media. At some point, I've realized I may as well not be discussing with a human; they're walking memes.
Even "chronically online" seems a bit euphemistic... it's like we're all living under oppressive technofascism.
Hello Librarian, I'm looking for a book about wanking. Can you help me?
Yeahhh we're gonna need a 741.6 as well...
But for real, things like this are great. Local elections ALWAYS matter. Just an unfortunately large amount more than ever.
Sign at end of library shelf:
Nervous about asking
ABORTION 363.46
ABUSE 362.76
ALCOHOL 362.29, 813.81
ANXIETY 152.46, 155.5, 616.85 BULLYING 303.69
CANCER 616.99
CHILD CUSTODY 343.73 CUTTING/SELF HARM 616.85 DEPRESSION 616.85
DIVORCE 306.89
DRUGS 362.29, 613.8
EATING DISORDERS 616.85
HIV/AIDS 616.97
LOSS OF A PARENT 306.87, 155.9
MENTAL ILLNESS 616.89
POST TRAMATIC STRESS 616.85
PREGNANCY 306.87, 618.2
RAPE 362.88
SELF-ESTEEM 185.1, 305.23 SEX 613.9
STIs 616.95
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SUICIDE 362.28, 616.85
As a library, we're not here to judge, we're here to help
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You won't see this in a red state I can assure you
Trying to decide which anxiety DDC to look at first would give me anxiety lol.
I had to look it up:
152.4 Psychology > Perception, movement, emotions, drives > Emotions and feelings
155.5 Psychology > Perception, movement, emotions, drives > Psychology of young adults
616.8 Medical sciences and medicine > Diseases > Diseases of the nervous system and mental disorders
I really feel being somewhat neuro divergent when my first though was, 'wtf Is that font', it's like someone made comic sans worse.
I love this! It's a really thoughtful thing to do
Given the sub, I was expecting to be surprised that Solarpunk was one of these difficult topics.
Good now trump knows exactly which books to ban
I don't anyone in the Trump administration can understand the library categorization system so I think we're okay.
Fill his kindle account in with those books! His kindle account...
Comic sans spotted
That's not Comic Sans. The E looks completely different.
Look at you, jumping right to judging.
Of all the fonts in the world why is it always comic sans...
It isn't comic sans though. It looks sort of like comic sans but it's much cleaner.
It's difficult to tell really because the quality the image isn't best but if you zoom in there's quite a lot of variation of the same letter form so it's an adaptive font.
Look at the two L's in bullying. They're not the same both times and the two t's in cutting merge into each other but not any of the other characters. So there's some custom letter forms going on there which comic sands doesn't support.
I see what you're saying... It's still comic sans adjacent and it bugs me.
My father uses it on everything and he teaches 1st grade so I just associate comic sans with kids. I used to help out a lot in his classroom growing up.
Seeing stuff like "rape" written in a font that my brain has tied to small children is unpleasant.
No it’s not
Post-Incarceration Syndrome (PICS) ?