The services like renting power tools is amazing, or free tickets to museums and stuff.
I loved the Last Week Tonight segment about it, and not just the taxidermy parts 😁
Hadn’t heard of that, thanks, I’ll check it out
Prefer to spend your time outdoors? I’m not sure about other states and countries, but in CA your library card can get you free entry to state parks!
Our library let’s you borrow free passes to different museums and attractions in the area.
The more I learn about Cali’s laws and taxes the less I want to live there, which sucks because the landscape can be so beautiful
One use of the taxes is to preserve the beauty and make it available to everyone except where it’s too fragile.
A lot of the regulations exist to mitigate the evils caused by massive concentrations of humans, like air pollution.
But hey, you go ahead and stay where you are. That’ll keep a place open for another of the many people who move away, experience life in those other states, and then come home again.
Don’t get me wrong even if I wouldn’t go there long term Cali is still on the visit list, it’s just a matter of time and opportunity
Pls keep learning 😛
Ya room for improvement. Absurdly amazing when everything’s good (you have money near the coast but not near wildfires)
The Los Angeles Public Library offers:
- Free Museums tickets
- Free Zoo tickets (LA city residence only)
- Free state park passes
- You can borrow laptop, tablet, or even portable a Wi-Fi hotspot
- Free education software (Mango and Linkedin Learning)
- Free Comics, Music, Magazines, and Movies
- Free and cheap 3D printing
Obviously not every library offers all this, but check in with your local branch, and you might be pleasantly surprised.
One of the “protect our children” protests in the UK yesterday involved burning down a brand new library because…reasons, I guess?
If you ever had any doubts about the right wing protests affecting the UK, remember they burned down a local community library for no fucking reason.
protect the children from learning!
My wife is a library administrator in (depending on how you want to look at it) a large town or a small city.
Some of the things the library offers people might not expect:
• Free 3D printing.
• Free large format printing.
• Free sewing machines.
• A ‘libary of things’ where you can check out things like tools or musical instruments.
• Tabletop RPGs you can take home or play there with people.
• A teen room with an XBox and a Playstation and a bunch of games, but adults are welcome too.
• eBooks and streaming audiobooks, movies and TV. My wife listens to audiobooks constantly and hasn’t paid for one in years.
You can also book a librarian to basically be your own personal researcher for a certain amount of time and they will even deliver books to you and pick them up later if you need them to.
Soon, a new branch will be opening. It will have a room with a lockable door and a signup sheet, one person allowed at a time. Inside will be a shower, a washer and a dryer, free to use.
By the way, if a library doesn’t have the item you want but another library has it, they can get it for you from that library.
Libraries are amazing.
I love the musical instrument loan programs. I loaned a violin for a month to test out whether I wanted to learn to play it.
I like it and the experience gave me enough of an understanding of the instrument to feel comfortable buying a used one to continue on with.
I don’t think I ever would have started learning it without the library program, the instrument is so intimidating
That’s awesome! My wife brought home a ukulele to try, but then she never tried it and brought it home. On the other hand, she’s already very good on piano, so that’s not the worst thing in the world.
Same thing for surveys and stuff at museums and similar places. Help them get more funding with them, even if you don’t have time to write something sincere. Numbers say a lot.
Libby app uses your library card for digital loans on books and audiobooks.
My library offers free accounts for online courses like Coursera and Udemy. Saved me a few hundred bucks when I was trying to get into UX and web development. All I had to give was an email and choose my local library from a list, that was literally it. I was surprised these things were readily available for free with no hassle.
📚 📖 🫲😃 = 😎 👍 🪙
and even if they don’t know how to read, they could always pretend.
I have a library card. But never used it bc I pirate all of my books. But I will still be keeping it.
I also find most of my books through unconventional sources but still use my library card for books through apps like hoopla and libby, both for the convenience of the mobile format and to keep my ratios in line.
I’m in Germany we have Onleihe and it’s shit thats why I pirate.
I always go grab the latest video game from my library. I don’t pay for em. You get them for 3 weeks at a time and can borrow them as much as you want. This is how I managed to play the entire PS4 library pretty much.
My library card means I don’t need to buy a printer.
I thought ebooks are cool for a while but the smell, the memories, the sound of paper books. It’s my childhood. Life is the whole experience and nowadays I don’t even watch movies until I have a proper setup first, which sometimes also means stimulants. It’s why cinemas are still a thing.
We can strip it down to just clean, raw information but the noise enriches the taste.that’s why I buy vinyls.
but honestly I just listen to it all steaming on YouTube and downloaded from Anna’s archive /shame
They also rent board games. It great for mystery games like Unlock that you can only play once or twice.
Get a library card to impress the ladies or dudes 🤓
(only kinda joking)
If they can’t recite their card number from memory on the first date, there won’t be a second one.
(OK maybe more applicable before the advent of password managers… I ‘membered)
