#RecentAcquistions I had a couple of big library trips recently!! 👍🏻 I was reading the two on top at the time I took this, but I just finished Evil Eye. Just started the tagged book in its place. I‘m excited to reread Swimming Lessons since I‘m doing Fuller‘s full catalog this year. I also picked up a St James for next month‘s #AuthorAMonth. Otherwise, we‘ll see what my mood reader self actually gets to! 😂
TrishB Good selection there 👍🏻 1y
Prairiegirl_reading I‘m quite jealous of the selection at your library! This is not the first time I‘ve felt this way. 🤣 1y
Cinfhen Agreed @Prairiegirl_reading Meg has the BEST library system !!!! 1y
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Cinfhen I spy Lawn Boy!!! Loved it and was SHOCKED to discover it‘s a banned book 😡 1y
squirrelbrain I‘m jealous too! 1y
youneverarrived A couple here I really want to read. Swimming Lessons I really enjoyed 💕 1y
Megabooks @TrishB thanks! I really feel lucky to have such a great library @Prairiegirl_reading @Cinfhen especially since my town is not that big! 1y
Megabooks @Cinfhen I have LB on my TBR thanks to you! 1y
Megabooks @squirrelbrain I‘m really curious how the library system works in the UK. Ours are funded mostly by our local community with some additional funding from the state. I love my local library! 1y
Megabooks @youneverarrived yay! Looking forward to it! 1y
squirrelbrain Meg, our public libraries are funded by the government, and local councils (I think). However, some smaller libraries have been closed down and have reopened run by volunteers, but they‘re still part of the main library system so you can transfer books within your local library system. @rockpools would be much better at explaining than me! 😃 1y
squirrelbrain Timely article in today‘s press…. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/22/northern-ireland-libraries-can-no-.... 1y
Megabooks @squirrelbrain that‘s so sad. I couldn‘t image not having anything new in any library in Kentucky. Wow. The worst thing we have, especially in the South, is these ultra right community groups that try to ban books. Right now the people in charge and the majority of the involved community does not support banning, but there was a letter to the editor in the local newspaper asking logical, non banners to start attending meetings of the library board 1y
Megabooks @squirrelbrain I‘ll likely try to go to the next meeting. We are also very lucky to have a local paper that still engages in journalism. All in all as far as large towns go, I‘m pretty lucky, but sometimes I do wish I lived in Nashville! 1y
rockpools @Megabooks @squirrelbrain Hi both. Wow! I hadn‘t seen that news from NI - that‘s terrible. Not sure that I can add much to what Helen‘s said already really Meg. Libraries are mainly funded by the local authority (council) who have a ‘statutory obligation‘ to provide a ‘comprehensive and efficient‘ library service. What that means isn‘t really laid down anywhere, so library services can look quite different in different counties… 1y
rockpools Most places the service is run directly by the county or city council. We‘re a bit of an oddball set-up down here, and are run by a charity who the council commission to run libraries. That makes it a bit more flexible- we can raise money and apply for grants and stuff that council-run libraries couldn‘t. It‘s worked well until now, but all the councils are struggling right now, so we are looking at cut-backs and the likes. 1y
rockpools At a community level, we also have ‘friends of x library‘ groups who can fundraise for an individual library, and help out with particular projects. Ours put in towards a lovely refurb of the children‘s library a few years back, and support things like ‘Warm Spaces‘ - free hot drinks through the winter for those in need. 1y
marleed Last winter there was some kind of ultra-right conservative push to defund Missouri libraries. My go to library is on the MO side of Kansas City even though I live on the KS side. I was worried it would effect the purchase of new books. Somehow the funding of libraries is written into the state constitution. I found it fascinating and don‘t believe the threat made progress. But every time I get a new release from the library I appreciate it. 1y
BarbaraBB So many books and I don‘t know most of them!! 1y
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