Librarian Paradise in the making?

[Goblin King Grog]

Futuristic Librarian Paradise!

For crazy futuristic robotic librarians anyhow. Just think of how many human librarians are out of work due to this thing !!

[Aberzombie]

Way back when, in highschool, we had a nickname for one of the school librarians - Conan the Librarian.

[Dennis Baker]

OoooK

[Shadowborn]

I think one of the commenters on the article had it right. The main thing this will do is change the jobs of students doing work study. Rather than stocking shelves, they'll be stocking bins.

Personally, I always like lurking in the stacks. The article is spot on about finding good books while you're looking for the one that's supposed to be there.

[Evil Monkey]

I'm sure this 'librarian paradise' will morph into a robot pirate base shaking down passing motorists for oil. Obviously without a stack of Dewey Decimal tags and a fleet of steel-haired matrons a library can't function effectively

[Set]

As one of those teacher's brats who managed to get whole hours of the day devoted to blow-off-stuff like 'Library Aid' or 'Office Aid,' I oppose the idea of soulless automatons stealing these shirking opportunities from shiftless surly uncooperative students who are more interesting in gabbing with their friends in the stacks than helping library visitors!

Hasn't anybody seen Terminator?

First they came for the librarians, but I was not a librarian, so I said nothing...

Wolverines!!!

*froth* *twitch*

[Abraham spalding]

Pfft -- they're late to the party -- it's called the 'internet'.

[Dennis Baker]

Shadowborn wrote:

I think one of the commenters on the article had it right. The main thing this will do is change the jobs of students doing work study. Rather than stocking shelves, they'll be stocking bins.

Personally, I always like lurking in the stacks. The article is spot on about finding good books while you're looking for the one that's supposed to be there.

Yeah, I think people underestimate the value of walking the isles and just grabbing a book that jumps out at you. If you have exactly what you ask for delivered how can you ever notice the awesome related book next to it you didn't realize you wanted?

[Crimson Jester]

What a shame.

[Crimson Jester]

I just watched a show on the Library of Congress, turns out this is how they have been doing it for years. Of course most of the books are housed off site and so it takes hours to get it to you.

[Dennis Baker]

Kind of makes sense, if you can get rid of those great big wide isles you can haf ve a ton more books. Also, keeping them sealed better from moisture and temperature fluctuations.

[zylphryx]

But the library won't smell like old books anymore, it'll smell like axle grease. <sigh>

[Crimson Jester]

Yeah but it will look like this.

I could read a book here.

[zylphryx]

Yeah, good point. Maybe they can develop an "old book" scented air freshener...

[Aberzombie]

Mmmmm....old book smell.

[Toxic Stew]

Unwashed crotch smell

[Seldriss]

Hmm... I thought this was a thread about sexy librarians.
But I guess it's not really the topic.
Or... is it? ;)

[Dennis Baker]

...

Some anonymous person made these really awesome paper sculptures and left them at libraries. Awesome Sculptures made from Books

[Celestial Healer]

Dennis Baker wrote:

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Some anonymous person made these really awesome paper sculptures and left them at libraries. Awesome Sculptures made from Books

I hope that sculptor doesn't accidentally get his or her hands on a rare first edition. Wouldn't that be embarrassing.

[Dennis Baker]

Yeah, I find it ironic that in a tribute to books the artist chose an artform that destroys them.