The Freegal mp3 service (probably USA only)

I just downloaded 3 Bing Crosby songs--its was fun!

iatee you did not actually use "please enlighten me" while talking to an adult did you? go grab some bench man you know better than that

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Most streets, including the pavement, are considered public space, as are town squares or parks. Government buildings which are open to the public, such as public libraries are public space. Although not considered public space, privately owned buildings or property visible from sidewalks and public thoroughfares may affect the public visual landscape, for example, by outdoor advertising.

i mean how do you want my grandfather's library to spend the money? relocating from a historic 50s ranch building to a walkable neighborhood?

no, I want it to spend money on community programs not mp3s

my grandfather had a stroke, he can't walk to the library. he can't afford to buy anything because he's trying to pay for end-of-life care out of social security, and he's a retired university professor. the library is six blocks from his house. should he sign up for a citycar membership so he can drive down there or is it cool for the library to try to expand their services a bit?

fuck your imaginary community you stupid shut-in

it's cool it just comes at the cost of other things, because libraries don't have infinite money

you spout a lot of bullshit for someone who obviously lives in a bubble

no, I want it to spend money on community programs not mp3s

yes but when people who would otherwise support your goals get done talking to you they just send money to a random SUV maker & buy a couple gallons of gas whether they need it or not

tell me about these "community programs" iatee

Anyway this is not actually hard to use? Just snagged "Jackie Blue."

helps that I have my lib card number saved to my desktop tho

xp is that the community program where they hire bright young guys like you to supervise college-age volunteers who go to grandpa's house and read to him?

no, it's the community program where they hire the tons of under and unemployed people w/ library degrees

which this webste is not going to help

more like commune-iatee programs

They have Fela Kuti, you could snag a whole album in one week.

xp to do what iatee, my brother-in-law is an unemployed librarian

well ask him what he thinks about libraries spending their budgets on mp3s then

what would he be doing, iatee?

btw have you worked in a library?

what would he be doing, iatee?

btw have you worked in a library?

he would say it would be great, because they would have to hire a librarian to implement the service, just like teachers have to spend hours implementing online textbooks

i mean i suppose they could buy more books but the books they have already don't fit in the existing infrastructure and the # of patrons IS declining

ya that's certainly a job for life

teaching, or librarianship?

have you worked in a library, iatee? or managed one?

maybe they could have a TED talk where iatee explains that people should move to cities with big majestic marble libraries, and walk to them, and use them as public space

you will not believe how many years i have worked in a library

Queens does a ton of community programs . . . a lot of money for the outside programs comes from grants. Also, programming is part of any librarian's job.

I doubt this service is impacting negatively on any library's budget line . . . it's probably some initiative of Sony to see if there is any point in trying to make their music available through libraries.

I think this is more akin to the databases that the libraries pay to license . . . and pass the savings on to the "consumer."

wait a second ... you mean dewey decimal's not free?!

come on virginia, think about the queens library budget atm

Also grabbed "Me and Mrs. Jones" and "Back Stabbers." This is nice. I'd seen posters of it in the library for months – they have a fucton of posters pushing this – but never took it up.

Oops I accidentally grabbed the wrong Billy Paul track but it's good! "Billy's Back Home."

like the woodside library is closed the entire weekend but there's money in the budget for mp3s for people who aren't even going to visit the library? xp

i feel like sony should be paying libraries to do this, if they're not. kind of like how mcdonalds will give free fries for 'read-a-book' programs etc...

They're still patrons tho, if they have library cards, why not be able to use library services?
xp

If this service takes up even 1 % of QBPL's budget line, I would be shocked.

Yep, Abbottt, the service was a lot easier to use than I expected.

xp--Iattee, I don't think not implementing this service would give Queens the money it needs to have most of their libraries open on Saturdays. They're waiting for an economic turnaround and increased city funding.

People who don't visit the library have a right to use library services!

like the woodside library is closed the entire weekend but there's money in the budget for mp3s for people who aren't even going to visit the library?

critical thinking exercise: under what conditions might this be a reasonable decision for a library director to make? have we considered all of the costs? do we have enough data? is it possible some of our assumptions are incorrect?

idk how this is different than online database access or anything, just a different type of file

my local library spends between 10:1 and 5:1 on payroll vs materials

yeah I'm not implying that this one service is why kids in woodside don't have access to the library during the weekend, I'm suggesting that it's a pretty lame business to get into when that's already the case. in short - if anyone thinks that small public libraries are gonna have a competitive advantage as information gatekeepers - of any sort - idk what to say. those days are over.

iatee has the information advantage

in the meanwhile late great, tell me more about public space, very interested in yr alt universe definition

ok, let's see. i recently took my students to the library. since they live in a non-walkable neighborhood it took, oh, about two and a half hours round trip of travel time even though it was only three miles.

now we could have spent the entire day in the library, enjoying the filtered light and comfortable furniture of the public space, giving friendly smiles to strangers at the long tables, looking at the bulletin board and engaging w a diverse and fascinating staff, as i do when i vist my branch.

instead we used the online catalog to reserve our books and just picked them up and walked back.

so the future of libraries is...a building where you pick up your pre-ordered books?

you would argue that expanding the online catalog would undermine the library since you can find that stuff more easily on the internet, and that the logistics of our field trip only bolstered an unnatural relationship to public space in the minds of my suburban students

it could be iatee, it could be

do you prefer the past of books?

but...what if someone came up w/ a way to transmit book-information that did not require going 3 miles

oh you mean the internet?

but then kids will not learn to read books.

or do you mean a car?

you still haven't told me about your community programs, or your community library, or how you help your community

http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/2011/04/just-say-no-to-freegal.html

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cool, topic records label stuff now available

when going to the library means getting hot new daft punk singles for free everybody wins

we're up all night to get freebies