Re:Librarians Are Dangerous
by threatofrain on Sunday April 20, 2025 @01:37PM
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The "thing you can get at home" is why the iPad is at the library. Because it is becoming a community center, and also partly because it functions as an extremely understaffed daycare.
I avoid the childwatch at the YMCA that has a couple of screens, although it's otherwise excellent.
A trend in (some) libraries is to put technology everywhere - iPads for example (which I consider a very clunky way to search the library catalog). I'm assuming these things get bought via grants. If I go to the library, I want to deal with books, not computers which access the exact same stuff I could get at home. A separate computer room with actual, real, desktop computers available for people to use is fine.