Defunded by some Trumpist stooge in 3… 2…
Our state is trying. The trash have some coward called ‘Book Ban dan’. The coward doesn’t like free speech and has the morals of a serial killer. He is just working his way up to the name ‘Book Burning dan’ Trash gravitates toward power and there are no checks and balances left for that. That idiot is selling that books about ‘the gay’ are making people that way. I wonder what book he read that made him a spineless coward?
My state has a ‘Ron’ but otherwise I’d have suspected they were the same person, based on the description.
@MrMakabar this is lovely - please add alt text ❤️
edited it
Given the sub, I was prepared to be surprised that Solarpunk was one of these difficult topics.
Not to discredit this but I feel like maybe there should be a directory about all topics with shelf numbers and not just about hard to talk about topics?
As a library, you should give me a directory where I can find anything I want. And these topics could be included in that one directory and not singled out in the middle where anyone looking at it can be targeted by some fucking bigot.And there generally is, most libraries have a catalogue or at least a directory explaining the numbering system at a topic level. Thing is, this sign doesn’t just help people come to the library wanting help with these things. It helps people in the library who are experiencing this and didn’t know they could find a book to help them.
Hell some people don’t even know they need help with these things until someone offers.
The reference librarian is your friend…
Have you… never been to a library?
@PieMePlenty @MrMakabar Great troll. First class work.
It’s just the Dewey Decimal System, so you could look up whatever topic you like to find what it would be classified under. There’s thousands of topics that are covered here - there’s a reason it’s used for every non-fiction clarification in a library - that would be far too numerous to list on a single shelf listing. This library has chosen to prioritize the awkward questions as a way to help someone who otherwise may not know how to get help.
Alternatively, most libraries have a catalogue you can search by keyword and it will give you book results which will let you know where they are on the shelves. But again, that requires you to know that the catalogue exists and how to use it. It’s always going to be easier to ask a librarian, who can make sure you find something to help.
If someone is going to single you out for looking at list that includes “cancer”, “divorce” and “loss of a parent” they didn’t need a reason to target you in the first place.
Yes, but any librarian you might ask for the directory, is going to ask you what you are looking for.
Not if im crippled with social phobias, or dont want to bother a busy person at their desk. Also, the librarian at our school 30 years ago was an evil bitch which made me swear off reading books altogether.
You’re probably not telling the total truth, but maybe consider that one person being unpleasant 30 years ago isn’t a good reason to abandon an entire form of media for your entire life. Let it go. The librarian is probably dead by now, and they don’t have to matter to you anymore.
Every library I’ve been to in the past decade has had computers everywhere that can search their catalog, and even check it out yourself.
Wait … You don’t read books?
Sounds like a cartoon villain origin story. The Bibliophobe!
The librarian at your school 30 years ago probably also taught you about the card catalogue and the Dewey Decimal System.
What handy list of words trump is about to ban
Here is the canonical list:
British spellings are fine then
Trying to decide which anxiety DDC to look at first would give me anxiety lol.
I had to look it up:
152.4 Psychology > Perception, movement, emotions, drives > Emotions and feelings
155.5 Psychology > Perception, movement, emotions, drives > Psychology of young adults
616.8 Medical sciences and medicine > Diseases > Diseases of the nervous system and mental disorders
Oh good, books on how to bully. We don’t want folks to lose their technique.
the single most important reason for libraries to be freely accessible…maybe why certain folks want them to go away
If libraries didn’t already exist, to people in the USA they’d sound like some kind of socialist fever dream.
A place where anybody can go to borrow media for free? Paid with my tax dollars?
Benjamin Franklin was a lover of life, and he seemed to think that books helped to love life…I honestly can’t believe he was so influential as to create one of the finest institutions on the planet. Remember, he hung out with slavers…
The library of Alexandria existed a tiny bit before Franklin.
lending libraries?
Sure, an American invented libraries, totally /s
There could be some poor inner-city child that studies at libraries to get away from their home life and ends up joining the MIC or becoming an investment banker.
I say this all the time! I use it to try to discredit conservatives when they make up reasons why we can’t have good things. Like, look, you love the library, and you know conservatives would make up all sorts of reasons why it couldn’t ever work. When they’re going on about how free buses (or whatever) couldn’t work, it’s the same
Hello Librarian, I’m looking for a book about wanking. Can you help me?
Be more specific dear, is it more focus on addiction/medical field, porn/entertainment field, or fetish/farming field ?
First of all, that’s almost exactly how that conversation would probably go. Librarians are amazing.
Second, contrary to popular belief, masturbation is not recognized as a pathway to addiction by Psychology (neither are porn use and sex).
I know you were just doing the funny, but the internet should stop repeating this baseless idea invented by purity culture fanatics, even in jest.
Second, contrary to popular belief, masturbation is not recognized as a pathway to addiction by Psychology (neither are porn use and sex).
Lol, what? You can get addicted to almost anything. Including masturbation.
If you specifically mean “a pathway to addiction” then you misinterpreted the single use of the word “addiction”.
You cannot “get addicted to almost anything.” That’s nonsense. The DSM-V does not recognize masturbation, porn use, or sex as causes of addiction. There’s no such thing as “porn addiction,” for example. On top of that, it’s not as if masturbation addiction is a new idea that science has yet to accept—it’s the opposite, with psychology recognizing that the concept doesn’t hold up to scientific inquiry.
People who compulsively or excessively masturbate almost always have an underlying cause. Masturbating is the symptom of that cause, and addressing the root should bring any excessive behavior into balance.
The issue arises, though, that the internet often thinks that being horny more than their peers means there is something wrong with them. People tell them they’re “addicted” to sex, and purity culture spreads in earnest. There’s now entire industries that have sprung up based on this pseudoscience, and often because of cultural or religious upbringing, people do not question it.
There’s plenty of good resources covering sexual behavior and addiction. As much as I dislike Google, Google Scholar is a good way to find papers and studies on the subject(s).
Lmao
I know you haven’t read anything on the subject by your comment. You might want to start with the DSM-V.
I want to be tied up and milked like a dairy cow, so farming
Looking for more of a technical manual
In order for things like this to keep being offered, please keep an eye on your local library’s board and director. Ours are terrible, and gleefully destroying all our similar initiatives… Recent events have them feeling very empowered to do so.
Also, consider picking up a job like that too or running for a seat on such boards. There’s always too few applicants for such roles and extremists have an easy time enacting change.
Yeahhh we’re gonna need a 741.6 as well…
But for real, things like this are great. Local elections ALWAYS matter. Just an unfortunately large amount more than ever.
Dewey gang represent
Library of Congress is better because Melvil Dewey sucked and also all bible classifications start with the letters BS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Classification
Hey, you leave us to our dead classification system! Go hassle the latin scholars!
Comic sans spotted
Of all the fonts in the world why is it always comic sans…
It isn’t comic sans though. It looks sort of like comic sans but it’s much cleaner.
It’s difficult to tell really because the quality the image isn’t best but if you zoom in there’s quite a lot of variation of the same letter form so it’s an adaptive font.
Look at the two L’s in bullying. They’re not the same both times and the two t’s in cutting merge into each other but not any of the other characters. So there’s some custom letter forms going on there which comic sands doesn’t support.
I see what you’re saying… It’s still comic sans adjacent and it bugs me.
My father uses it on everything and he teaches 1st grade so I just associate comic sans with kids. I used to help out a lot in his classroom growing up.
Seeing stuff like “rape” written in a font that my brain has tied to small children is unpleasant.
That’s not Comic Sans. The E looks completely different.
No it’s not
Look at you, jumping right to judging.
wtf who will go to library and read a book about rape or hiv while they are still nervous or tramtized by it? shit makes no sense. You will either search the internet or see a therapist.
Shut up.
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Kids/teens whose at-home internet usage is monitored by strict parents, and who can’t seek therapy without their parents’ consent/knowledge. The parents may even the complicit in/perpetrators of the rape.
Domestic abuse victims who live with their abuser.
Homeless who can’t regularly afford internet access or a therapist. Many homeless people regularly rely on public libraries for internet access, and are common victims of rape and abuse. So why not direct them to other resources while they’re there?
Elderly victims, who still fall back to books instead of the internet, and who grew up with a heavy stigma surrounding therapy. Elder abuse is a very common problem, as they’re often a very vulnerable demographic with few friends and limited mobility.
People who just like to read. For many people, books are a source of comfort. Not everything has to be done on a smartphone or desktop.
Just to name a few…
valid response. thank you
The internet is full of bullshit advice (ESPECIALLY around sex and health issues). Doctors and therapists cost money, and frankly aren’t the best way to just get basic facts and education.
My small local library has kiosks near the exits where you can check out a book completely unassisted. I could walk in, pick out the most embarrassing book, check it out, and nobody would ever have to know.
Thanks to a sign like this, someone who didn’t know the library had such resources, and/or was too embarrassed to ask, has a better chance of accessing that info. And they also know that the library staff WANTS them to be able to access that info, further reducing any stigma they might feel.
You’re a troll, but I’ll entertain you. “Books about rape of HIV” can also be books that are meant to be an emotional help instead of just a book with facts.
Some examples for books about rape:
- I Have Been Raped, Now What? by Susan Henneberg
- Sexual Assault: The Ultimate Teen Guide by Olivia Ghafoerkhan
- Shout! by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Strong at the Heart: How It Feels to Heal from Sexual Abuse by Carolyn Lehman
Books such as these are meant to help against the trauma.
what exactly do these numbers mean?
Ah Lemmy, downvoting an honest question. Daddy Reddit would be proud.
Upvoted to offset the stupidity.
People were seriously downvoting this? People need to be more aware that what used to be common knowledge is not so common in either younger generations or other parts of the world. We should not discourage people from asking genuine questions.
38 upvotes 1 downvote. Theres always going to be people who downvote things. Could be someone who doesn’t realize that system isn’t used everywhere, or maybe their app uses a swipe feature they haven’t turned off. Sometimes when I scroll down I’ll accidentally have it slide left or right and up/downvote something without me ever really noticing it happened. I wouldn’t hate on all of Lemmy because 1 downvote though, seems overzealous
As an online community, we’re not here to help, we’re here to judge.
Dewey decimal system for finding books on the shelves.
Never been in a library before, huh?
I have. I was making a reference, which is why I linked that video.
The problem with this software as it exists now, is that I see your message in isolation in ‘messages’, and if I want to see the context I link to the overall thread, then I would have had to scroll down through the entire thread until I found the actual post, which I just did now, but a prolific poster is just not going to do that with every response. It is a glitch in Lenny itself that leads to these confusing return replies.
I just use Boost for Lemmy. It doesn’t have that problem.
The problem is, Boost for Lemmy should be built in, not an add on. have a thing about apps riding on other apps riding on other apps. Eventually, security is compromised.
yeah multiple people have answered it by now
Where to find the books, shelves are indexed.
books have category numbers and libraries sort their books by this
Conan the Librarian:
