{"id":816,"date":"2003-11-07T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-07T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2003\/11\/07\/816\/"},"modified":"2003-11-07T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-07T22:55:00","slug":"816","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A THOUSAND WORDS ARE WORTH A PICTURE: For all you booklovers out there, here&#8217;s the motif above the door at the local library.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/lib.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I don&#8217;t use the <b>public library<\/b> much any more.  If I want to read a book I schlep over to Borders or log on to Amazon and buy it.  If I want to look something up, I check out Google.  But hey, I&#8217;m glad to pay tax dollars to keep the libraries open.  They&#8217;re outposts of civility and reason in an increasingly uncivilized world.  Well, at least they are when kids aren&#8217;t jammed into them, fooling around while pretending to be doing homework.  <\/p>\n<p>The mini-computer is doing the public library harm in more ways than one.  There are all sorts of computers available in the libraries these days with all sorts of referencing tools. I myself have no idea how to use them.  Because of short staffing due to budget cutbacks, it&#8217;s hard to find anyone to explain how they work.  I was taught the old ways of finding things in libraries (card files, periodical indexes), and those old ways are all gone. The local library may still be a gold mine of information, but I have almost no way of getting at it.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, I still like to stop in and wander around a library every now and then, amidst the other lonely old psychos and losers you usually find in them.  The ideas and ideals behind and within the libraries are still an inspiration and are still worth preserving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A THOUSAND WORDS ARE WORTH A PICTURE: For all you booklovers out there, here&#8217;s the motif above the door at the local library. &nbsp; &nbsp; To be honest, I don&#8217;t use the public library much any more. If I want to read a book I schlep over to Borders or log on to Amazon and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}