Sign at end of library shelf:
Nervous about asking
ABORTION 363.46
ABUSE 362.76
ALCOHOL 362.29, 813.81
ANXIETY 152.46, 155.5, 616.85 BULLYING 303.69
CANCER 616.99
CHILD CUSTODY 343.73 CUTTING/SELF HARM 616.85 DEPRESSION 616.85
DIVORCE 306.89
DRUGS 362.29, 613.8
EATING DISORDERS 616.85
HIV/AIDS 616.97
LOSS OF A PARENT 306.87, 155.9
MENTAL ILLNESS 616.89
POST TRAMATIC STRESS 616.85
PREGNANCY 306.87, 618.2
RAPE 362.88
SELF-ESTEEM 185.1, 305.23 SEX 613.9
STIs 616.951/2
SUICIDE 362.28, 616.85
As a library, we’re not here to judge, we’re here to help
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What handy list of words trump is about to ban
Here is the canonical list:
British spellings are fine then
@MrMakabar this is lovely - please add alt text ❤️
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Not to discredit this but I feel like maybe there should be a directory about all topics with shelf numbers and not just about hard to talk about topics?
As a library, you should give me a directory where I can find anything I want. And these topics could be included in that one directory and not singled out in the middle where anyone looking at it can be targeted by some fucking bigot.It’s just the Dewey Decimal System, so you could look up whatever topic you like to find what it would be classified under. There’s thousands of topics that are covered here - there’s a reason it’s used for every non-fiction clarification in a library - that would be far too numerous to list on a single shelf listing. This library has chosen to prioritize the awkward questions as a way to help someone who otherwise may not know how to get help.
Alternatively, most libraries have a catalogue you can search by keyword and it will give you book results which will let you know where they are on the shelves. But again, that requires you to know that the catalogue exists and how to use it. It’s always going to be easier to ask a librarian, who can make sure you find something to help.
The reference librarian is your friend…
@PieMePlenty @MrMakabar Great troll. First class work.
And there generally is, most libraries have a catalogue or at least a directory explaining the numbering system at a topic level. Thing is, this sign doesn’t just help people come to the library wanting help with these things. It helps people in the library who are experiencing this and didn’t know they could find a book to help them.
Hell some people don’t even know they need help with these things until someone offers.
Have you… never been to a library?
If someone is going to single you out for looking at list that includes “cancer”, “divorce” and “loss of a parent” they didn’t need a reason to target you in the first place.
Yes, but any librarian you might ask for the directory, is going to ask you what you are looking for.
Not if im crippled with social phobias, or dont want to bother a busy person at their desk. Also, the librarian at our school 30 years ago was an evil bitch which made me swear off reading books altogether.
Every library I’ve been to in the past decade has had computers everywhere that can search their catalog, and even check it out yourself.
You’re probably not telling the total truth, but maybe consider that one person being unpleasant 30 years ago isn’t a good reason to abandon an entire form of media for your entire life. Let it go. The librarian is probably dead by now, and they don’t have to matter to you anymore.
Sounds like a cartoon villain origin story. The Bibliophobe!
Wait … You don’t read books?
The librarian at your school 30 years ago probably also taught you about the card catalogue and the Dewey Decimal System.
the single most important reason for libraries to be freely accessible…maybe why certain folks want them to go away
If libraries didn’t already exist, to people in the USA they’d sound like some kind of socialist fever dream.
A place where anybody can go to borrow media for free? Paid with my tax dollars?
I say this all the time! I use it to try to discredit conservatives when they make up reasons why we can’t have good things. Like, look, you love the library, and you know conservatives would make up all sorts of reasons why it couldn’t ever work. When they’re going on about how free buses (or whatever) couldn’t work, it’s the same
Benjamin Franklin was a lover of life, and he seemed to think that books helped to love life…I honestly can’t believe he was so influential as to create one of the finest institutions on the planet. Remember, he hung out with slavers…
The library of Alexandria existed a tiny bit before Franklin.
lending libraries?
Sure, an American invented libraries, totally /s
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Trying to decide which anxiety DDC to look at first would give me anxiety lol.
I had to look it up:
152.4 Psychology > Perception, movement, emotions, drives > Emotions and feelings
155.5 Psychology > Perception, movement, emotions, drives > Psychology of young adults
616.8 Medical sciences and medicine > Diseases > Diseases of the nervous system and mental disorders
Oh good, books on how to bully. We don’t want folks to lose their technique.
In order for things like this to keep being offered, please keep an eye on your local library’s board and director. Ours are terrible, and gleefully destroying all our similar initiatives… Recent events have them feeling very empowered to do so.
Also, consider picking up a job like that too or running for a seat on such boards. There’s always too few applicants for such roles and extremists have an easy time enacting change.
Hello Librarian, I’m looking for a book about wanking. Can you help me?
Be more specific dear, is it more focus on addiction/medical field, porn/entertainment field, or fetish/farming field ?
Looking for more of a technical manual
First of all, that’s almost exactly how that conversation would probably go. Librarians are amazing.
Second, contrary to popular belief, masturbation is not recognized as a pathway to addiction by Psychology (neither are porn use and sex).
I know you were just doing the funny, but the internet should stop repeating this baseless idea invented by purity culture fanatics, even in jest.
Second, contrary to popular belief, masturbation is not recognized as a pathway to addiction by Psychology (neither are porn use and sex).
Lol, what? You can get addicted to almost anything. Including masturbation.
If you specifically mean “a pathway to addiction” then you misinterpreted the single use of the word “addiction”.
You cannot “get addicted to almost anything.” That’s nonsense. The DSM-V does not recognize masturbation, porn use, or sex as causes of addiction. There’s no such thing as “porn addiction,” for example. On top of that, it’s not as if masturbation addiction is a new idea that science has yet to accept—it’s the opposite, with psychology recognizing that the concept doesn’t hold up to scientific inquiry.
People who compulsively or excessively masturbate almost always have an underlying cause. Masturbating is the symptom of that cause, and addressing the root should bring any excessive behavior into balance.
The issue arises, though, that the internet often thinks that being horny more than their peers means there is something wrong with them. People tell them they’re “addicted” to sex, and purity culture spreads in earnest. There’s now entire industries that have sprung up based on this pseudoscience, and often because of cultural or religious upbringing, people do not question it.
There’s plenty of good resources covering sexual behavior and addiction. As much as I dislike Google, Google Scholar is a good way to find papers and studies on the subject(s).
Lmao
I know you haven’t read anything on the subject by your comment. You might want to start with the DSM-V.
I want to be tied up and milked like a dairy cow, so farming
Defunded by some Trumpist stooge in 3… 2…
Our state is trying. The trash have some coward called ‘Book Ban dan’. The coward doesn’t like free speech and has the morals of a serial killer. He is just working his way up to the name ‘Book Burning dan’ Trash gravitates toward power and there are no checks and balances left for that. That idiot is selling that books about ‘the gay’ are making people that way. I wonder what book he read that made him a spineless coward?
My state has a ‘Ron’ but otherwise I’d have suspected they were the same person, based on the description.
Dewey gang represent
Library of Congress is better because Melvil Dewey sucked and also all bible classifications start with the letters BS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Classification
Hey, you leave us to our dead classification system! Go hassle the latin scholars!
Yeahhh we’re gonna need a 741.6 as well…
But for real, things like this are great. Local elections ALWAYS matter. Just an unfortunately large amount more than ever.
Good now trump knows exactly which books to ban
I don’t anyone in the Trump administration can understand the library categorization system so I think we’re okay.
Federal library funding is under threat— So go support one of the last remaining public spaces. It’s an outdated idea, somewhere a human can exist without having to spend money.
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I took my young kid to a recent library event - the first time I’ve been to a library in several years, to be honest - and overheard the organizer (or leader or whatever) of the event saying “that’s why we’re here: to give people somewhere safe they can have entertainment for free.”
I didn’t have much in the way of an opinion on that person prior to that, positive or negative, but I respected the hell out of them after hearing them say that.
god I love librarians.
god I love librarians.
