Someone will be coming to YOUR door soon!
Come back Jehovah`s witness `s, all is forgiven!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15800436
If someone asks me to volunteer at my local library, I won't be answerable for my actionsOriginally Posted by faginsgirl
Someone will be coming to YOUR door soon!
Come back Jehovah`s witness `s, all is forgiven!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15800436
It won't come to that - the face of the future is already becoming very popular:
I thought of you, Dame Starry when I read this article. You're probably the only person I 'know' who would whole-heartedly agree with it. As you so often tell us, in a democracy, ALL opinions are welcome including this one
Liberal whingers are wrong – we should shut our libraries - Telegraph
Oh good, someone else that I can tell to bugger off when they knock on the door, ignoring the Neighbourhood Watch notice saying that I don't see anyone without an appointmentSomeone will be coming to YOUR door soon!
Come back Jehovah`s witness `s, all is forgiven!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15800436
Steve
I must admit to being one who wants to see them kept open for others more than for myself. I don't use them so much now that I can afford to buy the books I want and I'm now a lot busier than I was in my student days so I don't read for leisure as much as I used to.I thought of you, Dame Starry when I read this article. You're probably the only person I 'know' who would whole-heartedly agree with it. As you so often tell us, in a democracy, ALL opinions are welcome including this one
Liberal whingers are wrong – we should shut our libraries - Telegraph
The article says:Yes, but where does someone get those internet services if they can't afford to have an internet connection at home? At the library.Take reference services, once the core of the public library’s educational role. Access to information has been transformed by the internet. Google a subject and you can become ridiculously well-informed ridiculously quickly. Engrossing lectures from the planet’s best minds are freely available on university websites, from the TED conference series, or on BBC iPlayer. Channels such as BBC Four or Sky Arts provide a wide range of high-quality documentaries across a multitude of subjects. We live in an information-rich society – so we should celebrate its availability, not yearn for a time when you had to go to the central library for it.
The article doesn't mention the lending services, not just books but my local libraries lend music, video games and many other things. The library in neighbouring Sutton even lends pictures to decorate your home for the fancy dinner party
Then there is all the useful advice that you can get from trained librarians (if you ask them nicely). I would much rather rely on a librarian's opinion rather then having to dig through the opinions of the weird and wonderful people who will be found with a Google search. Google or Wikipedia rarely give a decent answer to anything. They can give you a starting point for further research - which is best carried out at the library
Steve
Re: The video. `What would be the great thing about Peckham, how would you sell Peckham?`
A Hillarious memory of a falling chanderllier is probably the only good thing connected to Peckham
Last edited by faginsgirl; 20-11-11 at 05:18 PM.
I visit my local library with my 3 year old granddaughter (3 This Thursday Actually) they run a Small group for under 5's Stories and Rhymes with Bookstart...
Wonderful and informative for toddlers....
you cant Replace that with the wonderful World Wide Web
Though in fairness to Peckham, they have got a library that has won awards and stuff and whose users don't yet seem to want to be replaced by a pile of KindlesRe: The video. `What would be the great thing about Peckham, how would you sell Peckham`
A Hillarious memory of a falling chanderllier is probably the only good thing connected to Peckham
The story of Peckham library - Peckham library - Southwark Council
Reading a Book on one of those things Feels really Alien to me.....lets curl up with a Good kindle.....
Last edited by batman; 23-11-11 at 10:36 PM.
Yes, but then you leave the library - and you're still in PeckhamThough in fairness to Peckham, they have got a library that has won awards and stuff and whose users don't yet seem to want to be replaced by a pile of Kindles
Steve
Yes, but then you leave the library - and you're still in Peckham
Steve
It's OK - it's only a bus-ride from Streatham
Is that anything like being 24 hours from Tulsa?It's OK - it's only a bus-ride from Streatham
Steve
Do you still need a Passport to Pimlico?
Nick
Lol, then there's Harriet Harman of course, MP for Peckham, she's a good thing to be associated with the area.Re: The video. `What would be the great thing about Peckham, how would you sell Peckham?`
A Hillarious memory of a falling chanderllier is probably the only good thing connected to Peckham
I recall in my younger days the Bus route no.37 when it was crew operated that ran from Peckham to Brixton, Clapham, Wandsworth, etc; was known as the 'suicide' route because the numerous schoolchildren that traveled on it were so unruly.
Is that anything like being 24 hours from Tulsa?
Steve
Just down the road from glamorous Tulse Hill - they're easily confused
I just can't read a book on a screen ...and don't want toReading a Book on one of those things Feels really Alien to me.....lets curl up with a Good kindle.....
It's Ok for short texts or comments, but nothing more
Last edited by moonfleet; 21-11-11 at 10:53 PM.
And what about a beautiful art book, with paints or pictures, handling it, turn the pages, on a nice paper (which might have been made with "chlore" and have poluated a lot, air ground and rivers, with its wastes, that's for the ecological part)
...the virtual quality on a screen has nothing to do with this
Last edited by moonfleet; 22-11-11 at 10:49 AM.
Yes, I enjoy books with pictures of cities, cathedrals, landscapes etc; in them, wouldn't be the same on kindle, something I will never have, then there's guide books at tourist attractions, I can hardly see people expected download a guide to a museum etc; onto a kindle before they walk around it.And what about a beautiful art book, with paints or pictures, handling it, turn the pages, on a nice paper (which might have been made with "chlore" and have poluated a lot, air ground and rivers, with its wastes, that's for the ecological part
...the virtual quality on a screen has nothing to do with this
I have fond memories of Tulse Hill.Just down the road from glamorous Tulse Hill - they're easily confused
Ta Ta
Marky B
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