Calgary Library

[Janger]

The Calgary Library Foundation - the funding arm of the library - is looking for donations to make up an inflation caused shortfall. I'm going to send them some money. I also use PressReader another library service to read periodicals (lots) after canceling my south of 49 subscriptions. And I use Libby, their online ebook service. The library is awesome. I almost forgot to mention their online course stuff which is also full of content.

Click here to learn more and make your donation to The Fifth Book campaign to the Calgary Library.

 

[Janger]

I made a donation. Talk about good value. My spouse and daughter both work at the library too. I read a 21 book series mostly on Libby.

 

[David]

Wow, that is a beautiful building.

 

[Doggggboy]

Meanwhile here in SK, Saskatoon had to temporarily close 2 of its libraries due to problems with addicts and violence and the main library in Regina is not a safe place for anyone. Fentanyl is awful stuff.

 

[Hollow-Grind]

What a colossal waste of tax dollars.

 

[trevj]

What a colossal waste of tax dollars.

Meh. If it provides what the users want or need, I'll be pretty happy to see the money spent on projects like that, rather than free drugs handed out at Free Drugs sites. Especially if it isn't repentantly ugly!

When I was living in Moose Jaw SK, (1992-1999) I thought that the Public Library, all decked out in Marble Paneling, was about the best use of my tax dollars that I actually benefited from!

The inter-Library Loan system, is a hella powerful tool! I got "Reference" material, shipped in, that came from such libraries as Cape Canaveral, and Sandia National Laboratories, for a month at a time, at no charge to me... All I had to do was ask!

 

[trevj]

Meanwhile here in SK, Saskatoon had to temporarily close 2 of its libraries due to problems with addicts and violence and the main library in Regina is not a safe place for anyone. Fentanyl is awful stuff.

That sucks. Regina had a GREAT Library. Though, I was deeply saddened, the day I went in to kill a few hours (wife had an appointment) reading through their collection of Model Engineer magazines, maybe 75 years or so worth, when they told me that the had dumped the whole lot into the recycling....

As I have stated in person, several times, I think stuff went to poo, about the time we were no longer allowed to hit the stupid people with sticks!

 

[phaxtris]

Hey I don't mind if some of my tax dollars to towards good looking buildings and "beautification" items, I think that's one of the reasons people choose Calgary over Edmonton...what an ugly drab looking place that is

 

[Crosche]

It's a beautiful building (mausoleum), trying to preserve the dying art of literacy. I think that it is a worthy endeavour.

 

[trevj]

It's a beautiful building (mausoleum), trying to preserve the dying art of literacy. I think that it is a worthy endeavour.

Given the long list of stupid ideas that "Government" seem willing to support, stuff like this seems a far better option.

 

[Chicken lights]

It's a beautiful building (mausoleum), trying to preserve the dying art of literacy. I think that it is a worthy endeavour.

I'm probably the last generation to read a real newspaper or a book while having breakfast in a restaurant

That is a gorgeous building

 

[trevj]

Hey I don't mind if some of my tax dollars to towards good looking buildings and "beautification" items, I think that's one of the reasons people choose Calgary over Edmonton...what an ugly drab looking place that is

Meh. Calgary has thousands of subdivisions of McMansions that all look alike, in great bloody lumps. I used to joke that I should hand out wrenches to kids at Halloween, and have them take down the street signs, to see how long it took for folks to actually find their own homes...

Edmonton tries to do that to, but in smaller lumps.

Having spent some time living in Alberta, Calgary seems to be in far too much of a hurry, stress levels are too high, and folks seem more stressed out. Edmonton was not near as much pressure to, well do anything .

 

[Hollow-Grind]

Given the long list of stupid ideas that "Government" seem willing to support, stuff like this seems a far better option.

Meh, at least it’s not my tax dollars so I really shouldn’t care. Hey, let’s build a $250 million building that we can’t afford to run, that benefits probably less than .1 percent of the population , then ask for more money. Great idea!