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I miss when library books used to have little paper pockets inside with a list of all the people who borrowed it and when... I hate that this is now exclusive knowledge of librarians. I do care that a miss Mariana borrowed this book in 1985 and then Dario in 1997. They're my brothers and sisters

elasticitymudflap

but really, there's a million reasons why it's an issue for users and staff of the public library to have immediate access to a record of who has borrowed a specific item and when.

and that's not even about keeping the information "privileged" to the library staff, these days they don't even keep a digital record of an item's history of borrowers; once you return a book, there isn't a list of everyone thats ever taken that book out that your name gets added to (though they probably take a tally of how many times it is checked out for circulation statistics).

i think the card system is a remnant of a culture that could only exist in the world before the internet as it exists today, where this identifying kind of information wasn't always readily at your fingertips, even for those at the "information professional" level.

don't get me wrong here, i do understand the nostalgia factor to it as being part of a different time, but i think it's always important to understand why this kind of system has its flaws and has been (at least in north america) taken out of practice

umjammertammy

bear in mind that US public libraries spent most of the past twenty years fighting off lawsuits that they were prohibited from disclosing to the public because when 9/11 happened the federal government wanted a list of every person who read certain books and the librarians had a really bad feeling about where that kind of policy would end up going, for some reason.

not keeping the records in the first place is a way for the libraries to protect themselves when they stand up for your privacy.

hsavinien

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_FBI_has_not_been_here.jpg

This was a thing in multiple libraries. We really want to protect your freedom to access information.

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Certified Library Post

depsidase

galactic-mayhem

saw this on pinterest but i think it belongs here too

anarchistmemedistro

isuggestusingyourlocallibrary

It's becoming clearer that sometimes when I say "use your local library" it's taken as "use a public library" and while that is definitely something you should be doing if you can, I'm usually talking about any library that's accessible to you!! Lending libraries, online libraries, school libraries, all of these are important to use as well!! If you have access to them, use them!! "Your local library" means any library that is local to you!

this-is-trans-joy

For anyone who can’t get a physical library card, for whatever reason, the Internet Archive (yeah, I keep mentioning it AND I’LL MENTION IT AGAIN!!) only needs a basic sign-up like any other site for you to start loaning books. No ID necessary!

beardedmrbean

crazy-brazilian

chronicallyimmune

i have to admit— even though i make internalized ableism checks on here, i struggle a lot with it myself.

i use a cane and i’m mad about it. but usually i can stand up long enough to do a quick shower in the dorms. i’ve been really struggling to do that lately.

i have a foldable stool just in case but i hadn’t used it yet. it felt like using the stool was letting the illness win.

and then i got this text while i was complaining about it:

use your mobility aids! don’t show up empty handed to this knife fight, bring your knife and cut a bitch.

it was so nice to shower and actually get my hair clean. i feel so much better AND i didn’t pass out naked on the floor! double win!

so yes. internalized ableism check. unstrap that dagger from your thigh and sit down in the shower

disabilityaidpositivity

[ID: screenshot of a message: "Would you go into battle without a sword and shield? You have battles to fight and weapons to win the battles. Use your weapons so the AH doesn't win." /end ID]

pixiecorpse

nancy downs

continent-of-wild-endeavor

zagreus

schizoetic

This comes straight from the depths of my memory bank. When I was locked in isolation nurses prohibited me from drinking water because I was drinking it in excess while thinking it was giving me supernatural powers. But when nature called and I had diarrhea, they forced me to get on my knees and struggle to clean it up which was impossible because I didn't know what I was doing. I imagine they didn't think I would remember... but I do, and I'm not afraid or embarrassed anymore to speak up about it. People think that in this modern day and age that things aren't cruel like this but I need to inform you that they are and something drastic has to change. Us patients can't all be delusional at the same time about the same mistreatment.