The transcript for Podcast 117. Libraries, Buying eBooks, and Diverse Historicals: An Interview with Librarian Dena Heilik has been posted!
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Great podcast! I actually just wrote and turned in a paper last week on e-book licensing issues and libraries. I wish I’d had this podcast a couple of weeks earlier – I would have used it as a source for my paper!
I used to love my local library until they remodeled and turned it into a stainless steel, glass and untouched-by-human-hands monstrosity. The staff match the decor. I do everything I can to avoid using the library for anything other than picking up reserved books. Thank God for Kindle and low-priced books. Libraries for me have become places I am forced to use when I can’t find a book anywhere else. I also wonder why, if buying books is so expensive, that they won’t accept donated books. I love a certain mystery series. Unfortunately the library is missing one of the books in the series. I bought a copy and offered to donate it when I finished reading, but I was told that wasn’t possible. I should donate the book to the Friends of the Library to be sold for pennies on the dollar and use the library’s byzantine form to fill out a request to buy the book. Right.
I’m sure they library system has its reasons—we do have a large homeless population, so human unfriendly decor makes a sort of sense, right down to the metal projections on the concrete borders so a person can’t lie down on the, but refusing to accept donated books to complete a series, huh?
I used to love libraries, but now, not so much.
Ah, what a bummer, Heather – I’m sorry! I hope you get an A on your paper, though.
I am very lucky to live so close to the town (British) library and close enough to the base to take advantage of the American library. Living in the UK is expensive; as such, I had to rein in my book and craft budget to meet the exchange rates.
I like on both libraries, yet they are very different in quality. The town one is small and part of the larger community center, so quiet is a relative term. However the customer service can’t be beat at the town library – warm and friendly and patient with kids. Unfortunately, the base library is big, cold, and has a very bored looking staff that evades most customers rather than help them. But the base library has a fantastic selection of books on Overdrive.