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| Pelagia |
Posted - 22/04/2008 : 20:05:26
Jubilee Library is to open on Sundays from 27 April:
http://www.citylibraries.info/news_events/events.asp
I could get quite excited about it, if it weren't such a crap library |
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| B.O.B. |
Posted - 28/04/2008 : 07:13:38
and with some of the blocks of flats that are being flung up, not even style. |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 25/04/2008 : 10:56:43
quote:
Originally posted by moon23
Typical Brighton, style over substance.
Martha Gunn said it first and I agree ... Style over substance just about sums Brighton up. |
| moon23 |
Posted - 25/04/2008 : 10:53:09
Typical Brighton, style over substance. |
| Furzewick |
Posted - 25/04/2008 : 10:35:08
Yes another account about the Jubilee Library and other than the word 'library' nothing to do with books. |
| Control Panel |
Posted - 25/04/2008 : 10:25:37
The Argus reports that Brighton library is more popular for gay sex than for reading. This is hardly news. It provides so little chance for reading that it's no wonder some opt for a spot of legover.
http://www.theargus.co.uk/display.var.2224876.0.brighton_library_named_as_gay_sex_haunt.php |
| Control Panel |
Posted - 24/04/2008 : 22:29:02
Yes, babies like the sound of reading almost as soon as they are born. It is at that stage that language is formed. |
| long time no see |
Posted - 24/04/2008 : 20:44:04
Good Point Pel.
Life In The City. |
| Pelagia |
Posted - 24/04/2008 : 20:12:27
Just try and read a computer in the bath and you are in trouble! |
| long time no see |
Posted - 24/04/2008 : 17:15:01
The World is changing
but I think Books will remain.
Electronic Screens can strain your eyes more.
Most Top Publishers are now looking at Eco Book Maufacturing
showing that they care! |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 24/04/2008 : 16:57:25
Maybe Anubis ... But I do deeply regret that my grandchildren will never really know the joys of sitting in a library, surrounded by that wonderful smell of books. My grandson, the youngest, loves being read to already and he is just 5.5 weeks old. He already has a budding library of 6 books! My most cherished moment of the past few weeks was when my eldest grandson, aged 11, was sitting in an armchair with his newest cousin, reading to him. Both of them intent on the book in front of them. It took me back to when my eldest used to soothe her younger sister by reading to her. Books are about a lot more then just the transmission of information and I think that our over reliance on the electronic will mean our losing out in the end. |
| Anubis |
Posted - 24/04/2008 : 16:38:06
quote:
Originally posted by Miriam Binder
That library is nothing to yearn to see. The first thing you come across as you entered its hallowed portals is a 'ye old gifte shoppe' and the next thing that hits you is the noise. Then when you have recovered from those shocks, you look around and realise that really the books are only secondary to the entire building as its first concern is meeting rooms and private meeting rooms - all for hire.
Yeah, I think Miriam has summed it up pretty well in a couple of sentences. But I'd add, that unfortunately, that's the way it increasingly is, everywhere. In London, especially, the new Borough libraries that are appearing everywhere are much the same as Jubilee, except nowadays they are almost always known as "Ideas Stores". Much space, much glass, minimal book stocks, computers and many many rooms 'for hire'.
Like it or not, I suppose the development was determined; twenty years ago I probably referred to a book about something several times every day -- nowadays everything is much more readily available on Google. The British Library at Kings Cross remains an exception and is more like the traditional library -- the reading rooms are spacious and comfortable and books (which cannot be borrowed, of course) can be ordered and obtained usually in less than 30 minutes. [Being an archaic git, I loved the library more when it was still in the middle of the British Museum, but the ordeal searching the old catalogues and passing in the forms is now so much easier with the modern technologies] Even in the traditional fields covered there, much of the essential stuff is steadily appearing on the web -- so readers sit at home instead.
I visit the Jubilee, on average, probably every three weeks; just pop in to look at the odd journals (and newspapers). Normally, only buy a paper once or twice a week, and on the days I visit I arrive as it opens and can, for starters, generally read three or four of the national papers before anyone else arrives (come later and many of the papers have "disappeared"?!) -- before looking at magazines etc etc of interest.
So yes, Miriam sums it up well, it's a great disappointment, but that's just the way the world is changing, I reckon. Maybe Miriam and I are just getting too old? |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 23/04/2008 : 08:03:40
That library is nothing to yearn to see. The first thing you come across as you entered its hallowed portals is a 'ye old gifte shoppe' and the next thing that hits you is the noise. Then when you have recovered from those shocks, you look around and realise that really the books are only secondary to the entire building as its first concern is meeting rooms and private meeting rooms - all for hire. |
| Daveb |
Posted - 23/04/2008 : 07:51:27
I have to admit that I have not even been in the place.
Strange to think that I go into Brighton less and less.
Must make a note to have a good walk around and see all the changes.
Are the SS Brighton, Odeon, ABC, Astoria, Regent, and Acadamy still going? |
| Edwin the Scot |
Posted - 22/04/2008 : 22:28:15
quote:
Originally posted by Pelagia
Jubilee Library is to open on Sundays from 27 April:
http://www.citylibraries.info/news_events/events.asp
I could get quite excited about it, if it weren't such a crap library
Yes, there are so few books in it. Hopeless. |
| long time no see |
Posted - 22/04/2008 : 20:24:42
About Time.
10AM would have been better.
11AM-4PM is the Sunday Hours.
Life In The City. |
