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http://sirriamnis.li...om/1898157.html


Thoughts?

I spent a lot of my childhood in libraries and in the bookbus as a kid growing up. I would take home stacks of books each week.

This pisses me off no end :|

Someone should shove a book up his ass.

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if i was allowed to use every swear word in my vocabulary right now, i would use them to describe him. but that's against forum rules and there's younger people present :lol:

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Can I kill him?


*Barely contained bibliophile raaaaaaaaaaaage*

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Who the crap ever says "I wanted that kid to lose sleep that night" ...?

That's what bothers me most.
Sure, the wages seem high... but like it says - they're associated with a very advanced degree. There's more to it than "looking in a computer to help in finding books for people."

It seems like there's some missing information about the entire situation, though...

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FLURKING SHNIZ! "Xinos" even SOUNDS like an evil name.

I'm currently at grad school working for a Master's in Library and Information Science. Librarians are my peeps. And there's a lot more to being an actual librarian then shelving books and sitting around at the circulation desk - those are clerk jobs.
A well supplied library is essential to cultural growth, especially for those who are not well off enough to afford the sometimes obscene cost of books. Just yesterday I was in my school's special poetry collection reading a rare book that would have easily cost me at least $500 if I wanted to own it. And journals are well beyond the price-range of a normal person, I was reading one for which a year's subscription was around $2,000.

I realize this is at an academic institution, which has a different purpose than a public library. But public libraries are still very important! They are centers of culture and information, irreplaceable by things like Wikipedia or Barnes & Noble.

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Infractus, you couldn't have put it any better.

Yes, library work is more than sitting around like a useless blob. Not only is there the stuff library patrons see, like checking out books, finding them for people, and saying "shh!"; there's also cleaning, cataloging (which is evil), cleaning books, repairing books, finding lost books, and dealing with people who can be really, really stupid. Don't even get me started on the Dewey decimal system...grrr...

At the same time, these people do need to be paid. I could go into a big speech about how money is the most noble form of flattery/appreciation/trust/et cetera, but I'll save you the rant. Things should not be demanded out of thin air, but that doesn't seem like what the kid was doing.

Before I hear the entire story, I can't make a judgement. As the saying goes, there's always three sides of a story: Yours, mine, and the truth.

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Idiot.

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What an ass. I mean, really. How could he say something like that? I would love to wipe the floor with him. I think he's probably just one little unhappy person who feels everyone else should be miserable just because he is. Someone needs to kick his ass. I wish it could be me.

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*Sicks Cerebrus on Xinos.*

How could he have been so mean to, from what I can tell from this article, a sweet little girl!? ^_^

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Dude... I love the library. Not only for reference materials, or the peace, or the fact that I can look through shelves of books to look at the written works of authors just sitting there untouched in the non-fiction section at the very top (and quiet) part of the building. I'd go there, meet with family and friends and be able to have...a sort of hideaway at times... But I digress.

The people there helped me the most. Okay sure, some were a little impatient, but they were doing their jobs and helped me a lot when I needed it. Can't find a book that's checked in? Twenty minutes later, it's in my hands. Heck, I was even allowed to play my DS (muted of course) there when waiting to use a computer for reference.

Nice people. Just wish I could have at least aided in putting back those books that kept on accumulating...

I would also like to add this:

[...]"stop indulging people in their hobbies" and "their little, personal, private wants."

Really? ...Heartless cad. I hope Mr. Taylor haunts his dreams!

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I love the library a lot too! Librarians deserve some sort of huge parade or something like that in their honor. I'd love to see Mr.Xinos here try to endure all of the rude people who refuse to be quiet, take poor care of their books, never bring the books back, etc... Most librarians that I've met are really nice people. They don't deserve to have to deal with jerks like Xinos all the time! :)

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Me as well.

And to see this happen, I'm absoluted stunned. This is immensely terrible.

Computers ARE helpful in getting us information, yes. Will they replace books? Never. Two-thousand years in the future, nobody will be able to open files on our old floppy disks, and probably not even our CDs or flash drives. Will they be able to read? We hope so.

And in terms of using them as a library catalog, things happen. Networks shut down. Resources are innaccurate. And just because you find it in the catalog doesn't mean it's good. There's no substitute for a recommendation coming from someone who's actually read it, a machine can't be helpful in that way.

So the logic behind this is completed whacked.

Dear goodness, I'd love to get some justice for this.

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Jerk.

I love libraries. Just being in them gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. -_-

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It's obvious everyone has a different perception of things, but it's scary to come across people who are this ignorant or cruel. Even though we don't know the whole story, the things they said are posted right there, and all we can do is hope they'll come to understand how others live in the world.

I've worked at a library for 5 years, actually... (that, and a book store). Libraries are wonderful, not only for their resources, but for the people who work there and are willing to reach out to the patrons. At my library, we're right in the center of downtown and get a lot of people from the homeless shelter coming in, so it's a chance to show them some love as well. We all know librarians don't just wipe tables and shelve books, and they certainly don't make $100,000 in salary. I get sad when I hear about jobs being replaced by machines in the library system... right now, they're slowly converting all the libraries in the county to self-checkouts, eliminating the people who work in circulation. They want things to be more cost-efficient, but it's at the expense of the human touch, which is exactly what the kid in that article was crying about.

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...What.

Okay. Okay, wait. So assisting growth in the upcoming generation, spreading cultural awareness, supplying a society with a wealth of knowledge and information... is... I... This person obviously has his head up his backside so far I'm surprised his spine hasn't snapped, and regardless if it's just a segment of a larger picture, he is thoroughly uneducated in social graces. You do not behave that way. You absolutely. Do not. Behave that way. Especially toward children. And he doesn't know a thing about education if he didn't connect the advanced degrees with the salary. That and this is just...

Fail. Absolute fail. I want to punch him.

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At 69 years, he should definitely know better than to speak that harshly to a child and think that librarians only clean, sort, and check out. Even at my school's library, they're always trying to gather useful sources for specific class research projects, organizing author meetings, lending calculators and laptops (and then tracking them down), dealing with computer breakdowns, etc. I know they do a lot of the same things at public libraries, and that definitely deserves $98,676 per year. Plus, don't librarians in public libraries have long hours? Or maybe they take shifts...

Man, I love libraries. If I didn't have other things to do, I could live there, reading all day. So many interesting-looking books, and so little time! @_@ To think that this man, who must have read tons of books to become criminal attorney, doesn't appreciate this! :P I'll bet at least once he needed a librarian's help when he was getting his degree.

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Personally would not have used that defense, but to every lay-off there is a form of justification...
... not a good way to get the jury's support, however.

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*Necro threads like the late arriving %$£! she is*

SON. OF. A. GLITCH. >| That is all.

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...That's it...I'm going to find this 'Xinos' guy and take my rusty chainsaw and cut his brains out. Either that, or constantly brain him with a book.

That guy is a grade-A+
Spoiler
. What, getting rid of a library just because they don't have to 'pay for it'? If I ever see this guy, I'm gonna kill. Treating an innocent girl that loves to read like that!

...Is there a name like Niso in the world? If there is, then this guy is either a Heartless or a Nobody.

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I find it a shame that this man thinks this way. I wonder what made him turn out the way he did...

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this guy needs to meat all of us and i would stab a KUNAI in the person's mouth

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I find it a shame that this man thinks this way. I wonder what made him turn out the way he did...

He doesn't, he's just being a lawyer (albeit harsh). Lawyers say and do things they don't believe all the time for a client.

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Wow thats a damn shame it seems lay off's are reaching even town staples and to some necessities. I should know because our library straight up CLOSED not to long ago, running off of DONATIONS. A friend of mine worked there and the state was like "Oh yeah use the internet BAI" I know alot of people that don't even own a computer, and usually elderly don't have them and their the type to use a library (not to mention kids, the library here was parallel to 2 schools elementary and middle school on the same street and a block from the high school) Where are they throwing all this money?!?!?




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