# Contemporary Library Time---WTF?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemporary-library-time-wtf/648057>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 23, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemporary-library-time-wtf/648057 "2013-01-23T00:03:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemporary-library-time-wtf/648057/101 "2013-01-25T18:21:15Z")

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**Magiver** , every librarian in this thread has refuted your claims, yet you persist in obfuscating and insisting that your perception of the world is the only way. Why?

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**Author:** ![steviep24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@steviep24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steviep24)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contemporary-library-time-wtf/648057/102 "2013-01-25T19:15:25Z")

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Libraries have changed over the years. One of the new ones in my town looks just like you stepped into a Barnes & Noble. It even has a coffee shop. It’s a bustling place but reasonably quiet but not to the point where you could hear a pin drop. The librarians there like it that way because it shows it’s being used and appreciated.

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