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From: legg <legg@nospam.magma.ca>
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Subject: Re: OT: Public libraries
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 01:01:14 -0400
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:40:29 -0700, Don Y
<blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

>On 4/22/2025 1:43 PM, legg wrote:
>> One of the benefits of library computers is access to the
>
>Yes, but one can access that from home (computer, phone).  Hence
>my comment regarding storing books in "high cost" spaces instead
>of "in a back room"; if the staff are the ones who will be
>PICKING the books, then there is no need for the co$metic$ of
>public stacks.
>
<snip>

Anything that requires home hardware or internet payments is shifting 
the publicly costed structure onto the backs of a public that can not 
always afford it.

It's the reason public libraries were developed by altruists 
in the first place.

RL