They no longer care for peace and quiet.

The elderly citizen is treated like a piece of poo in them.

Kids are allowed to break everyones concentration when libraries are supposed to be a place of contemplation.

The internet at todays libraries is an appalling, disgracefully insulting joke but in particular the system now used for searching for books in the library itself is just vomit. It's as if the libraries of today are telling its tax-paying customers to "Get back to consuming!!"

WHO CAN FAULT ME ON ANY OF THESE POINTS??

:-[ :-[

Libraries used to be quiet places, not now with mobile phones ringing very, very loudly and people chatting on them even louder.....how rude!

I really don't want to listen to someone's conversation when I'm at the library......or any other time for that matter.

The uni library was pretty good, no noisy kids there, and you could stumble across an intellectual or two if you were lucky.

THE IMPORTANCE OF SOLITUDE: a topic that has been much discussed at the highest of levels in the year just gone!

[quote author=Deathridesahorse link=1356680285/0#0 date=1356680285]They no longer care for peace and quiet.

The elderly citizen is treated like a piece of poo in them.

Kids are allowed to break everyones concentration when libraries are supposed to be a place of contemplation.

The internet at todays libraries is an appalling, disgracefully insulting joke but in particular the system now used for searching for books in the library itself is just vomit. It's as if the libraries of today are telling its tax-paying customers to "Get back to consuming!!"

WHO CAN FAULT ME ON ANY OF THESE POINTS??

:-[ :-[/quote]


What?!? Only two emoticons and a single colour with only All Caps? And suddenly you think you can talk about intellect???

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Dec 28^th, 2012 at 7:06pm:

the year just gone!

:-?

It's not gone yet.....

The NSW State Library seems not to suffer from such faults in my experience - if faults they are. Nobody has tried to wrap a large sheet of toilet paper around me and flush me down the hole.

Yes, City of Sydney libraries can be a little noisy, inevitably a consequence of the move towards collaborative use, rather than solitary introverts sitting in the Reading Room and trying to write a successor volume to Das Capital.

A librarian's most important word used to be "sssh!". Now it may be "google".

I agree that trawling through a library catalog on a computer terminal is a far inferior experience to wandering through miles of stacks, sampling a book here, a book there. But stack surfing has been replaced by web surfing. We may even be the better off for it.

Frances wrote on Dec 28^th, 2012 at 8:41pm:

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Dec 28th, 2012 at 7:06pm: the year just gone! :-? It's not gone yet.....

-->> YO, HEAR FRANCES ROAR!  ;D ;D ...DID YA WRECK ANYONES CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR GIRLIE FEATURES??

newtown_grafitti wrote on Dec 28^th, 2012 at 9:15pm:

The NSW State Library seems not to suffer from such faults in my experience - if faults they are. Nobody has tried to wrap a large sheet of toilet paper around me and flush me down the hole. Yes, City of Sydney libraries can be a little noisy, inevitably a consequence of the move towards collaborative use, rather than solitary introverts sitting in the Reading Room and trying to write a successor volume to Das Capital. A librarian's most important word used to be "sssh!". Now it may be "google". I agree that trawling through a library catalog on a computer terminal is a far inferior experience to wandering through miles of stacks, sampling a book here, a book there. But stack surfing has been replaced by web surfing. We may even be the better off for it.

THE CARD SYSTEM WAS QUICKER- BUT AS YOU AREN'T FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA IT'S PROBABLY JUST US GETTING SCAMMED.... YA CAN'T EVEN PLAY CHESS ONLINE HALF THE TIME HERE!!