Great Yarmouth Library=The Dog’s Bollocks

[erastes]

For some reason I have never been able to ascertain, The Dog’s Bollocks is a euphemism for The Best THING EVAH.  Perhaps it is because they can lick their own, and men have to have ribs removed (or to have a lifetime of contortionist training) to do so.

Anyway. With that lovely image in your mind – Great Yarmouth Library is the definitely brilliant.  For a start off it’s SELF SERVICE which I have no clue how that works. So freaking cool and excellent for grumpy misanthropes. All you do is put your books into a cupboard and somehow it recognises all the titles.  So no disapproving arseholes complaining about a cat hair caught in between the pages. 

PLUS they have a teeny tiny gay section (knowingly called “Loud and Proud” and I found PA Brown’s LA Heat there, which of course I had to borrow, just for solidarity. I mean how cool is that, to have someone’s book in a local library who is on one’s friends list? very! that’s how cool. I shall be ordering as many gay books as i can to make the section bigger.

And they have a cafe!! cake!

My book haul, apart from LA Heat is “Lord John and the Hand of Devils” which I’m fairly sure I’ve read but LJ is so bloody bland I can’t remember a word of it. “Mr Midshipman Fury” by GS Beard (Age of sail)(I doubt if there’s any sailor snoggage) Buccaneer by Tim Severin (piratey goodness) and Obelisk by EM Forster.

Still no Spring though.

Comments

[aunty_marion]

Swansea's Central Library (now in County Hall on the seafront, not too far from where Mum lives, though a bit too far for her to walk there and back) has that system, too. I believe there's an electronic chip buried inside the binding somewhere. Mind you, the last couple of times I went with her, it didn't seem to like all the books for some reason and she had to consult a Real Person.

I haven't been into my local library for possibly years now, and in fact I seem to have lost my ticket, so I'd have to get another one. The last time I did go in there seemed to be more CDs/CD-ROMs/DVDs than books.

No spring here either - it's gone bloody freezing again.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It was mildly depressing that no-one apart from me was browsing the books and yet every single one of the 30 or so computer consoles was occupied.

[jl_merrow]

One of the very few things I miss about working (in London) is the ease of access to decent bookshops and libraries. One office I worked in was actually built on top of a really good library, but everywhere I worked was within lunch-hour walking distance of a decent library.

We do have a library in the village, but... I think I personally own more books than they do! ;D

[erastes.livejournal.com]

yes, for years I've been going to Acle library which is TINY, they've got two Dick Francis and some Norah Roberts and that's about it!

[beckyblack]

The libraries in my city are moving to the self service things too. It's cool. You just put them on a desk thing and it knows what they are. You stick your card in a slot and take the books out. Nifty.

They have those RFID tags in them, I suppose.

Only problem is that now they don't have the return date stamped in them, so I lose track of when they're due back. They can print a little receipt with the return date on, but I instantly lose that. And I use at least three libraries and totally forget which books came from where. Fortunately, they don't care!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

i agree - i wish they had the date stamped on the label!!!!

OMG - ICON!

[cassiopaya.livejournal.com]

WHERE DOES THAT ICON COME FROM?!

Re: OMG - ICON!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

heh - I found it on belluthien's LJ - she had the whole photo - enjoy!