Re:What Do Public Library Workers Do? (2011)
by jvehent on Thursday August 18, 2016 @07:37PM
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Unless you're poor. Then you don't have a computer.
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That's amusing as I posted this article, I am homeless and I have a laptop, tablet and smartphone.
Yes, I spend my days at the library to get charge for my devices, free Wi-Fi and access to public PCs. But I am dirt poor and all my earned income comes via the internet.
/PSA
Re:What Do Public Library Workers Do? (2011)
by smnplk on Thursday August 18, 2016 @10:50PM
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Out of curiosity, how do you earn your money via internet ? Do you make apps for people ?
I do freelance writing and I run a bunch of blogs.
Re:What Do Public Library Workers Do? (2011)
by ianai on Thursday August 18, 2016 @08:21PM
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What do you do for securing them?
Re:What Do Public Library Workers Do? (2011)
by zaidf on Thursday August 18, 2016 @07:44PM
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A lot more poor people have a computer today than ever before. Nothing illustrates this better than seeing the homeless on their iPhones using the Starbucks wifi to access the Internet.
Re:What Do Public Library Workers Do? (2011)
by RobertKerans on Friday August 19, 2016 @02:46AM
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This is true, and a very, very good thing I think. But it's the prosaic stuff (how do I claim this? Where do I actually look for information? What information will help me? Etc) where having a real person sit and help you is incredibly important.