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Library has no shelf life
New York Post ^
| August 21, 2011
| CANDICE M. GIOVE
Posted on 08/21/2011 10:09:38 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
You could check out the barren shelves, but not the books.
A Harlem library branch has rows upon rows of empty bookcases. The shelves in each and every aisle in the adult section of the 115th Street Library had two or more rows without a single tome.
Though the NYPL online catalogue indicated that four copies of "The Catcher in the Rye" were available, they weren't there -- and they weren't checked out. The librarian said that the selection there has always been sparse and then whispered, "And there are no metal detectors. Sometimes people just walk out with stuff."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: harlem; library
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There goes the neighborhood. Harlem has slipped since Bill Clinton moved there.
To: ConservativeStatement
This doesn’t happen much in suburban libraries. Is there any consistent correlation that can explain this phenomenon?
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posted on
08/21/2011 10:20:29 PM PDT
by
lurk
To: ConservativeStatement
But Chris Rock said books were like kryptonite to a certain demographic...
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posted on
08/21/2011 10:22:26 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(ECOMCON)
To: ConservativeStatement
You'd better not screw up again, because if you do, I'll be all over you like a pit-bull on a poodle.
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posted on
08/21/2011 10:25:22 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: ConservativeStatement
The protected class don't need no stinkin' library cards!
Spread the wealth, whitey owes us.
Obama to his "people":
Our Time has Come!
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posted on
08/21/2011 10:36:15 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(My world was lovely, until it was taken over by parasites.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Keep an eye out for this guy
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posted on
08/21/2011 10:37:28 PM PDT
by
woofie
To: buccaneer81
But Chris Rock said books were like kryptonite to a certain demographic... Maybe so, but them books can be sold on the old eBay for something that's a lot more appealing...
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posted on
08/21/2011 11:28:43 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
To: ConservativeStatement
"And there are no metal detectors. Sometimes people just walk out with stuff." No wonder. They need book detectors, not metal detectors!
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posted on
08/22/2011 12:00:48 AM PDT
by
Minutemen
("It's a Religion of Peace")
To: Minutemen
Metal detectors make sense. A lot of those old books have copperplates and tintypes in them. Others are ironclad potboilers.
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posted on
08/22/2011 12:18:56 AM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
To: ConservativeStatement
The librarian said that the selection there has always been sparse and then whispered, "And there are no metal detectors. Sometimes people just walk out with stuff." Noooo! In Harlem?!
To: ConservativeStatement
Once again the barbarians
strike. It is easier to keep them mobbed up if they remain ignorant. However, there is an
alternative
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posted on
08/22/2011 1:08:25 AM PDT
by
jmcenanly
( "We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him." -Samuel)
To: Steely Tom
Maybe so, but them books can be sold on the old eBay for something that's a lot more appealing... ....or on a blanket on the sidewalk at B'way and 112.
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posted on
08/22/2011 1:24:29 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(Obama & Holder LLP, Procurers of fine arms to the most discerning drug lords (202) 456-1414)
To: ConservativeStatement
It’s Harlem.
The people there think everything is free.
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posted on
08/22/2011 2:17:18 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: lurk
This doesn’t happen much in suburban libraries. Is there any consistent correlation that can explain this phenomenon?
____________________________________________________________You’re kidding, right?
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posted on
08/22/2011 2:22:44 AM PDT
by
ruesrose
(It's possible to be clueless without being blonde.)
To: ConservativeStatement
"And there are no metal detectors. Sometimes people just walk out with stuff."Books tend to have very little metal content. How would they set off a metal detector?
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posted on
08/22/2011 2:27:46 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
To: Fresh Wind
They can if a little metal strip is glued to the spine.
To: ConservativeStatement
It would be pretty inexpensive to hire a truck and drive about 75 miles to rural libraries in PA where excess and donated books are available for 50 cents each.
Of course then someone would have to sort and put them on the shelves.
To: ConservativeStatement
I didn’t know Harlem had a library, and I’m impressed that somebody bother to take the books. I just hope they weren’t used for rolling papers or toilet paper.
To: ConservativeStatement
Why is a library with no books still open and funded?
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posted on
08/22/2011 3:59:03 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
To: ctdonath2
Maybe on the theory that if you build one, books will come?
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posted on
08/22/2011 4:12:02 AM PDT
by
Pecos
(Constitutionalist. Liberty and Honor will not die on my watch.)
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