# An Open Letter to My Fellow Students/Library Patrons

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-students-library-patrons/353242>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 19, 2006, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-students-library-patrons/353242 "2006-04-19T02:07:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-students-library-patrons/353242/21 "2006-04-20T00:30:08Z")

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Exact your revenge with your own, unique choice of language:

[http://www.google.com/intl/xx-elmer/](http://www.google.com/intl/xx-elmer/)

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**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-students-library-patrons/353242/22 "2006-04-20T04:43:29Z")

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> [@Paranoid Randroid](#):
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> Gah, you have it easy. I’d just be happy to be able to use the computers in my school’s library to search for a book - they’re always taken up by students, Japanese or otherwise, using the computers to play games or check email.

That’s becoming my standard city library rant. Sometimes all I need is a card catalog. I wish they’d kept one.

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-students-library-patrons/353242/23 "2006-04-20T06:08:52Z")

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The libraries in my last town (Bucheon), this town (Busan), and in Yolo County all had computers dedicated to the online card catalog. There were separate computers for web surfing, games, and the like.

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-students-library-patrons/353242/24 "2006-04-20T06:12:14Z")

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> [@Monty](#):
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> The libraries in my last town (Bucheon), this town (Busan), and in Yolo County all had computers dedicated to the online card catalog. There were separate computers for web surfing, games, and the like.

Every library I’ve used in Florida, Las Vegas, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, and San Jose is like that too, Monty.

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**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-students-library-patrons/353242/25 "2006-04-20T14:35:12Z")

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I hope the Google overlord 1984 Big Brother secret police aren’t looking at this posting but have you tried using _another_ search engine? Yes, I know it is sacrilege to even suggest taking such action but there are other ways to search _without_ using Google :eek:

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