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tongodeon

Librarians Who Should Be Fired

Jun 11, 2009 05:07

I'm at CLT airport in Charlotte NC, fairly amused by this ad for the Billy Graham Library. Not just because there are "no books to check out" there, but that this is an advertised selling point.

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swingland June 11 2009, 14:07:50 UTC

Welcome to our wonderful state!

While in Charlotte, also check out the Billy Graham Soup Kitchen...There won't be any soup, but there will be plenty of his story...

steeltoe June 11 2009, 17:12:12 UTC

There is only one book! And you can't check it out but they'll give you a copy.

jakeinhartsel June 11 2009, 19:23:08 UTC

"God's Little Acre?"

freeasinbeer June 11 2009, 19:18:27 UTC

There used to be books, but we burned 'em!

matrygg June 11 2009, 20:02:14 UTC

Technically, libraries don't have to check out books -- the Athenaeum, for example. That said, going to the link posted in the picture suggests that this is more accurately a museum, where the books are relegated to the gift shop.

tongodeon June 11 2009, 23:00:27 UTC

Technically, there are "no books to check out". That's different than "there are books, but they are not available for check-out".

matrygg June 11 2009, 23:03:16 UTC

Fair enough. And looking at their link, that they don't have any books is inaccurate, although "we only have books in the gift shop" doesn't have the same zing.

wisn June 12 2009, 00:26:16 UTC

For that matter, a library is an information repository. The media doesn't have to be books.

The Billy Graham library's website makes the place sound more like a memorial museum with a video archive.

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rwx June 12 2009, 00:41:33 UTC

His library is like the presidential libraries, which exist as museums and foci for research into the person, and not generally a lending collection. There are a number of these that act as a museum + special collection on the person.

But generally funny, yes.

but should we call them libraries drieuxster June 15 2009, 21:47:07 UTC

especially if there are no books to check out?

Re: but should we call them libraries rwx June 15 2009, 22:37:31 UTC

yes, but you shouldn't call it a public library. You should call it a special library, as in helmet.

The tagline also vaguely implies that it's free of bibles, which is funny.

Re: but should we call them libraries drieuxster June 15 2009, 23:00:37 UTC

oh you do have a sense of humour - since of course 'the bible' comes from 'the book' - and so is a part of the logical fault....

I have absolutely no problem with the idea that there are non-public libraries - since most college libraries are not open to anyone outside of their turf - but they still have books.

I am willing to admit I have a thing for the actual solid mass of a book, that an e-book, well, just does not give me the big warm fuzzy - but I also like to write gloss in the margins - hence why I have a library of books on an unpleasantly wide range of topics.

And I'm not sure I fully grok this 'short bus' mystic about putting helmets on folks who ride, well, the special olympics of booksNotKeptHerePlaces...