How do you rate your local library?

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I don't know about the States but here in Britain, many councils are axing most of the their libraries.
I'm very lucky that mine is open seven days a week and has a good prog collection.

Poll Question: How do you rate your local library?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Abysmal	0	[0.00%]
Poor	2	[28.57%]
Okay	1	[14.29%]
Good	4	[57.14%]
Excellent	0	[0.00%]
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condor Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 24 2005 Location: Norwich Status: Offline Points: 1069	Topic: How do you rate your local library? Posted: October 27 2015 at 12:34
	I don't know about the States but here in Britain, many councils are axing most of the their libraries. I'm very lucky that mine is open seven days a week and has a good prog collection.

ClemofNazareth Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Prog Folk Researcher Joined: August 17 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4659	Posted: October 27 2015 at 15:47
	I'm currently living in a small town in Pennsylvania (< 5,000 people) so the library is pretty humble. We moved here from a Midwest city of about 150,000 though and they have an awesome library system with a main branch that was built a few years ago at a cost of more than $10M USD and a circulation of more than 1.5M books and periodicals, plus piles of CDs and videos including a surprising number of prog titles in both categories. They also have a dozen branch libraries scattered around the city and suburbs, a Bookmobile program and a program that delivers books to shut-ins and families with small children. They even designed the main branch building to be homeless-friendly, which isn't as good as actually helping people not be homeless but shows some thought at least. I really miss that place
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A Person Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 10 2008 Location: __ Status: Offline Points: 65760	Posted: October 27 2015 at 16:45
	I live outside a small village, and the branch of the district library we have is rather small. Luckily if I really wanted to I could order books from most libraries in Michigan, I just don't.

The Dark Elf Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: February 01 2011 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 13055	Posted: October 27 2015 at 16:50
	I buy the books I want to read; ergo, the library holds no appeal.
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twalsh Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 26 2014 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 328	Posted: October 27 2015 at 17:04
	The library in Vancouver has a great system but the best location by far is downtown, and I hate to go downtown. Sometimes I get books transferred to my local branch. Now I want to see what CDs they have, as i never considered that possibility.
	More heavy prog, please!

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