Do you have any personal horror stories about your library?
there's an old guy that goes to mine every day to use the computers to trawl underaged girls Facebook photos and watch mass services; it makes me wonder if he's unwelcome at all the local churches for being a hyper-paedo (which, given that this is a predominately catholic city is saying something)
>>8265664
>Go to main branch library (think is like 7 or 8 levels fucking huge
>10 minutes to closing there is some faggot walking around in a black ceremonial cloak with a hood and a couple HP Lovecraft books
>We have reached new autistic heights
>>8265664
No. Other than the fact that everyone is fine with everyone else not shutting the fuck up.
>I was in the library a month ago
>No one in the room but library personel
>Finishing Cortazar stories, still an hour left until they close
>Intrigued about the bald girls waving at a lone man in the train
>Night outside
>Instantainously and without warning all lights turn off
>Trembling sound of elevator coming down accompanied by white fainting light
>Elevator stops
>JustWhatTheFuck?
>Elevator opens
>Strangely no one is inside
>There it in the floor lied a book instead
>In library a month ago
>No one in the room except me and library staff
>Finishing Cortazar stories
>Intrigued by the bald girls story
>Notlikingthisone.jpeg
>Instantly and without warning all lights go out
>Turn around
>Elevator starts coming down in the middle of the blackness
>Joining the madness I go to the elevator
>Elevator stops and opens in front of me
>Surprisingly is empty, well, almost empty
>The floor was crowned by a big blue and yellow book
>>8265664
I never go out
libraryfags are pretty chillbarns and noble on the other hand though...
>go to library just to see what it's like
>brand new
>huge building
>walk in
>there are no books in the west wing
>go looking around the empty shelves for anything
>wtf
>hobos sleeping in a distant corner cuddled up
>fuckthisshit.jpg
>go upstairs
>all the computers are taken by sweaty old fat people
>walk around them to get to the fiction
>half are looking at porn
>find the Vonnegut section
>this girl with short man-hair and a naruto shirt on is sitting with a guy with girl-hair in a dress also with a naruto shirt on
>gtfo
>mfw i realize this is /lit/ irl
>working weekends at a library while at uni
>buy a bag of lollipops out of my own pocket to give to children who apply for library card
>chatting a bit to a sweet, charming little girl about her favorite books (roald dahl and lewis carroll), writing, working in a library etc.
>she signs her new card and i let her choose a lollipop, she leaves with a big smile on her face with her grandmother
>middle aged man who wasn't even queuing or waiting behind her walks up to my desk, furious expression on his face
>lectures me about how hes been waiting forever to pick up books he has on hold and how i spent 30 minutes talking to the girl even though he was like just standing in the corner without any indication he wanted to speak to me
>mention that there were other people on duty he could've asked
>"THATS BESIDE THE POINT"
>sarcastically says "i'd like to pick up my books now, if you can manage that"
>reply with equally sarcastic fake smile, "sure thing sir"
>3 bryce courtenay books and a bio about maggie thatcher
>lol
He rang to complain about me, I explained to my boss and he agreed that he was a psycho and nothing happened after that. Sincerely hope that guy is dead now.
My library is old and depressing and full of homeless people. Most of the books they have are falling apart. I go to my school library to read sometimes because it's the only quiet place on campus.
>go to downtown library
>Everyone is black or hispanic
>There's a big computer section and every computer is being used by hobos
>Go to the Spanish language section
>They only have the second Game of Thrones book and a bunch of books on taxes, immigration, pregnancy.
>Take Juego de Tronos upstairs, sit down to read
>Black guy follows me, sits directly behind me
>After a bit I use my phone to look behind me
>He's staring at me, doing nothing
>Read for five hours until he leaves
>Never go back
>going to the library aka the daytime homeless shelter
>>8265838
had a bit of a giggle. thanks mate
yeah, there is no fucking silence.
>>8265809
> bio about Maggie Thatcher
I bet he voted Leave too, the cunt.
>go to local library
>it is full of children learning to love reading, parents helping them along, and the poor and destitute getting a reprieve from their miserable lives
>appears to be doing God's work
>walk past the checkout lines, bypassing the actual library stacks, to the store section
>purchase Gaddis, Gass, Pynchon, DeLillo, Roth, etc.
>all hardcovers
>$1 each
The library is awesome.
>>8265664
>Borrowed Ender's Game on audiobook recently.
>Haven't read the book since I was 17, and I get info better from audio, so this time I can actually enjoy it.
>Finish first three disks, really getting into it, some time after Ender joins Rat Army.
>Go to disc four.
>THERE IS NO DISC FOUR!
>Have to return it to the library and tell them a disc is missing.
Pretty harrowing experience.
>>8265805
Ouch. You got us anon.
>work in university library
>forget I'm working one afternoon
>have drinks with a friend
>get email from manager basically saying "Where the fuck are you???"
>luckily the bar we're at is pretty close
>go to work still buzzed as fuck
>have to go do some shit in one of the study areas
>see two people making out
>think it's a really good idea to shout NO FUCKING IN THE LIBRARY!
>like 40 people turn their heads to see who the fuck just said that
>regain my senses
>run like hell up the stairs
>pray no one reports me
>go to local library for the first time since I was a kid
>find book
>sit down
>computer section is right next to me
>bunch of sweaty kids watching minecraft and halo videos
>ignore
>hear a low gurgle coming from computers
>look over
>its a tard watching a halo video
>eeeuugggh
>he throws his headphones off and proceeds to tard screech
>fucking giant black guy stands up on other side of computers
>like this guy is fucking ripped
>at least 6'5"
>stomps over to the tard
>pulls headphones out
>turns off computer
>grabs tard by the shirt
>drags him out of the library
>haven't been back since
>MFW
>>8265664
this scarred me and makes me weary of setting foot in there ever again.
>walking around in fiction area
>black guy just standing by a wall
>sees me and lets out an audible gasp and "Ooohh"
>starts following me around
>realize he's gay and checking me out
>move around just to make sure if he's actually following me
>YEAP
>get frustrated and ask as loud as I can to bring attention from the other patrons "CAN I HELP YOU?"
>"me? no Im good"
>pretend Im getting a call on my phone and get the fuck out
It's always full of homeless people looking at porn or playing RuneScape on the computers. Too bad because it was really comfy an had huge windows and an atrium to hang out in with a cofee bar.
>>8265664
i had a massive gap in between two classes my first semester in college and because i was commuting from fairly far away i didn't want to drive home and back again so i started sleeping in the library. one day i wake up to some nerd cunt sitting next to me playing nintendo 3ds or something. i thought it was weird but i was too tired to get up and move so i went back to sleep only to wake up like an hour later to find that he had stolen my wallet and my phone.
>>8266211
Fucking kek m8
>>8265758
Were they bald? I don't remember that part.
Yes. It's a Books-a-million
> go to local library
> it's modest, quiet: only two floors and there's not really much there, it looks bigger on the outside
> live in the North of England, Yorkshire-area: there's some Yorkshire merchandise like t-shirts, post-cards and fudge with Yorkshire dialect printed on it
> "STICK T'KETTLE OON" "ERRR BAAA N'AM EEN'T AN AOUS" "EY UP PET" "WHERE 'OW CATTLE" "THA GET WAH THA GET IN THA GET SMACK ROOND ED" "EENT OOF ROOND IN'T DA POOB"
> have a look around the shelves to see what they have, there's a collection of audio books, DVDs, a children's book section, a bargain bin thing where they're selling books for £1 (nothing worthwhile)
> see an old man looking through the children's books section, about 80, hunched over like gargamel
> he's pushing books through the shelves so they fall on the other side, can hear him laughing, coughing and swearing
> see another person sleeping on the library chairs, he's arranged three of them into a makeshift bed, he's not even homeless
> the computers only have Microsoft 97
> an old woman is picking up Jodi Picoult and Boons & Mills novels
> her skirt slowly falls down and she still scuttles across the carpet looking for books. Notice she's wearing a yellowing diaper
> the whole room stinks like the inside of an ass
> trench coat wearing steampunk enthusiasts are using Jules Verne novels and Arthur C Clarke short stories to enact live action roleplaying in the corner of the room - they keep shushing me - can't take my eyes of the JC Denton sunglasses
> see pregnant teens bouncing bellies and smacking their lips, hear nothing but TSH TSK TSK SSSSP for days afterwards. They're more orange than the shoes I wore that day
> I can feel a fart coming along, I need to hurry and find an open window to fart out of
> fat kid that came from the bakers around the corner is dropping sausage roll crumbs everywhere, his face is covered in oil
> no books I want here, can feel fart waters falling down my leg, I notice my butthole feels a little itchy and I probably need to re-wipe
> someone shouts at me "Hey! Hey! HEY WHAT DOOTA DOOTA DOOTA YOOU'NS THINK YERRR OOP DOOP A THA DEN KMON THA DEN LAD"
> notice there's a long river of shit and piss from behind where I stand, looks like I did the damage
> run, never to return, crying
> notice it was a soup kitchen all along
>>8265805
>go to library just to see what it's like
>kind of old mid-sized buliding
>walk in
>books are all in boxes
>wtf
>lots of people outside for some reason but nobody inside
>fuckthisshit.jpg
>go upstairs
>nobody around here either, just a bunch of boxes
>people start cheering outside, can't tell why
>grab a rifle on top of one of the boxes to get a clearer view
>point it at the street and look through the scope
>some people in cars waving and shit
>i pull the trigger a few times, the guy's head explodes
>ohshitnigger.webm
>mfw I realize I just killed the president
>>8266242
>It's always full of homeless people looking at porn
this
University library. Brilliant, huge, love being there. Realize I've never been to the bottom floor.
It's an archive that is nearly all mechanical. There are no people on this floor. Shelves slide and disappear behind each other along slides and beltsr. It is dark here and there are small red lights on each shelf next to an interface to the move the shelf. Constant buzzing and humming against loud but smooth clanks.
Sections are made with chaink-link fence. I have no idea.
In the very back there is a alley on the right, and in there is a lone chair against a wall and a spot light, facing me. This is the only chair here.
>>8265721
There was a guy dressed as a monk in mine once, but I think he was an actual monk visiting the Catholic church a few streets over
my library is always overrun by emos in their early-20's. there's always one that has to act the cunt and start arguing with the security guy really loud. I wish could exterminate them all.
>>8266324
Kekkled rather well.
>>8265664
I work in my local library, for really good pay.
The worst people there are literal retards who make annoying noises and shuffle around like diseased mutants, unconscious brains barely registering the space around them.
Can we get some more, please? These are fucking great.
I'm happy someone saved my Simone-philosophercore inspopics
Watch the movie, OP. It's pretty good.
>>8266947
Good God where do you live
>walk in library
>full of pseuds and fedoras and dykes
>they all talk loud as shit
>they're all loud in everything they do
>no air conditioner
>smells like butt sweat in the summer
>no air, no wind
>fucktards dare to tell me I've been sitting at the table for 3 hours
>never again
Why should I not read in my room where it's cool, shady, smells of lavender and jasmine, have food readily available, and instead waste my time in le library with all le smart book nerds eksdee?
>Go to local library
>pick a book from shelves and sit down in the most remote corner of the third floor
>5 minutes into my book and a semingly drunken homeless old man offers me a chocolate bar
>i gratefully accept his gift
>he then tells me it's 10 dollars and refuses to take the bar back
>starts dancing around like a gorilla and screaming to intimidate me into paying
>wtf.jpg
>buff security guy comes running after him and punches him in the face
>weird fat black woman with jumpy eyes starts yelling like an agonizing babboon screaming "you done hit em cause he black?"
>GTFO of the library never to return
It's door way is surrounded by Emos and smelly stoner types and the library itself seems to attract weirdos - do they all, though?-
>Be reading a book
>Hear an almost comical whistle; it's quick and goes form a quick high pitched not to a low one
>Straight after the whistle I hear someone says 'Wow-ho!', not loudly but loud enough for a library.
>Look up; the librarian is leading some guy towards a section of books.
>The guy sucks in air, then proceeds to make a popping noise with his mouth.
>Oh No.
>She stops at the 'Mental Health' section.
>He thanks her, once again says 'Wow-ho' then adds in 'Wanker' after it and make shis hand into a gun shape and jerks it as if he has fired it.
>Lose my shit, try to hide my laughter.
Some fag with Tourettes.
>Same Library, down writing in a little booth, enjoying it.
>Some fag comes in, loudly speaks to someone he knows for a second then sits in the booth next to mine.
>Loudly opens a plastic bag of sweets and begins to read.
>In the silence, I begin to hear it...
>Every 'S' he hits as he reads very quietly under his breath makes a quiet but VERY irritating 'Hiss' sound.
>This goes on for ten minutes, can't concentrate.
>Leave.
>>8268999
He probably should have charged $9.99
I once was havin a threesome in one of the reading rooms and the 30 something librarian wanted to join in so I squirted inside a MILF. Not necessarily a "horror" story but definitely one of my weaker library foursomes
>this thread
The USA are such a strange place
>>8269061
For you, the special rate of $9.98.
>>8265664
>moving down to grad school
>dad driving me down
>mom decides to tag along
>just enough room in the car to fit all my books
>brother: "I'm coming too!"
>have to leave three boxes behind
Oh shit, you meant like library as in institution, not personal collection. Oh well, I already wrote the thing. My institutional libraries are all at a private uni so no hobos, no problems.
>>8268999
thats hilarious
>>8268900
Derry-Londonderry. the above story about the mass service watching hyper-paedo is the same library.
>>8266324
>>8266324
Reminds me to never visit Yorkshire.
>>8265857
lol, sadly true. That's my city's main library. My nearest one is a tiny building staffed by 3 or 4 women
>>8266504
And playing RuneScape
Don't ever fucking leave out extra words you dip.
>>8265682
He's probably writing the magnum opus of the 21st Century as we speak
> go to my local library, hoping to find some out of print books
> don't find any but I do pick up some Mishima so my trip wasn't a waste of time
> hear a young couple squabbling in the entrance-way, a woman is grabbing her baby by the legs, and the couple play tug of war with the child
> what the fuck
> sit down on a chair but realise the chair is leaking
> see a qt girl, probably in her early 20s, she's pretty
> she's looking through some books on civil rights before she takes a pair of scissors from her shoe and starts cutting whole pages from the book
> fat guy walks down the corridor, right past me, cue fart as he does
> "ugh shit for fuck sake, sorry sorry, sorry" he begins crying
> a big sassy black lady chases the fat guy down the corridor, I can hear her singing power ballads and saying "oh Lord, no!"
> Deus Ex theme tune music starts to play
> old man beside me is solving a crossword where every solution is "killme"
> a short fat stumpy kid comes from the children's books section to the reception desk, hides beside it, dropping his pants and shits
> room smells like shit
> the kid grabs The Great Gatsby and wipes his ass, picking up the poopy with the book and throwing it at the window
> realise there's graffiti everywhere carved on tables and on chair arms: "4 sex call ur dad"
> a whole shelf dedicated to different editions of Mein Kampf
I'm a Jewish gay black woman from Afghanistan.
>>8269499
thought I was the only one.
>Go to new, tiny library
>Talked to disabled staff member.
>Takes a bit for him to reaffirm my photo ID with his shaking
>Get to applying for a card
>Loud drilling sound from my left
>Realize that I failed a huge spot check
>Notice the elevator in construction
>Staff member explains what the fuck is going on with a flinch too
>MFW I got scared from construction noises.
>go into library, 16 years old
>need to go to the bathroom
>some torn up guy with a beaten up face clearly abusing stimulants comes in
>says loudly "hey man, you smoke"
>"uh, no"
>"oh that's good, that's good"
>starts rambling on to me about some fight he got in
>rush out to avoid him
>>8269997
central, Carnhill, or UU library?
>>8270632
actually that's obviously the central: reading your description was uncanny.
>be 10 years old
>go to local library in good ol Lakeland, FL
>this particular area is a hobo habitat
>dad goes off to read flyfishing magazines and I just wander about
>go into the bathroom
>hear loud grunting coming from the stall
>"urrrggg oh yeahhh"
>turn 360 degrees and walk away
At the time I thought he was talking a heavy dump. It wasn't until years later that I realized it was probably a homeless dude getting a bj. Maybe that's why I was turned off reading for so many years...
>>8270692
>360°
>>8265664
I took several videos (on separate days) of a retarded man jacking off in the computer room. I'll webm them later if I get the chance
>>8270860
re: 360° - I know it's from the whole "whys it called Xbox 360?" joke. I'm not new: I've been on 4chan since sandwiches were being made of fail and aids.
>>8268999
Ah, this happened to me in Boston with a homeless lady and flowers, they were actually little weeds but I felt bad when she asked for money and just gave in. The friend I was visiting said there's a bunch of them that do it, they all take a different street.
the library is a brand new modern building with wall sized windows. the book collection is mostly for normies, but every now and then I find a brand new Baudrillard book or something, and wonder how it got there. At least all the most important books from the canon are available.
I usually have a few drinks in the parking lot and then read a book until I'm tired.
the worse part is i started to notice a 3.14 that looks annoyingly similar to pic related, maybe a couple years younger than me. I've seen here volunteering there now like 15 times over the last few years. I've fallen in love but my life is a shambles and she'd never like me.
>>8271119
*worst
>>8269497
Was laughing for a solid two and a half minutes loud enough for my girl to come to check what the hell i was doing. 10/10
I only enter my library when I need to shit while jogging desu
>>8269497
I want your library.
>>8266156
He checks out audio books from a library on cd in 2016 (just download em?)
>>8266324
The horror, the horror.
>>8265805
>>8266242
I was going through library school and never actually remembered anyone ever looking at porn, I think this is a post-2010 thing.
The issue came up during group discussion and then I raised my hand and said "why not just ban the homeless from watching porn by installing blockers?" and everyone gasped.
Suddenly shit gets real Phoenix Wright in there and I basically have to defend my beliefs vs. a professor and 15 women.
"But censorship is not the library way"
"But sexuality is information"
"But erotica is art"
"But breasts need to be seen for medical purposes"
One person seriously said "homeless men have needs too anon, we could also provide lotion in bathrooms and on walls"
Eventually they wore me down and I lost the argument but I told them if they didn't do this what would happen. I told them libraries should stay enriching for the community as safe spaces and not to allow degenerate weirdos to feel comfortable there.
"Libraries are dying google google bing"
Yeah I would fucking wonder why when people watch gay porn on there all the time at my library and my hands are tied by management.
So a lot of the time its a very depressing job but there are cool moments like instilling the love of reading in kids like that one anon.
Its just frustrating that many libraries have turned into dens of iniquity and nobody cares. I can't raise my concern or just be shouted down or called a fake ass librarian. Sigh...
>>8271926
Pay some kid twenty bucks to hover around the computer section and start crying near a hobo watching porn.
Make sure he says he's permanently traumatized and mentally raped then go full Martin Luther on the library.
tho tbqh I don't really give a fuck if hobos want to jerk it, I just wish fucking libraries would have the books I want available to check out. Acquistions are the only thing I care about. Personally, I think libraries are giant castles of boredom and if I was a hobo hanging around there 7 hours a day for the air conditioning and comfy seats, I'd probably jerk off too.
>>8266101
I bet you voted Corbyn too, you dumb lefty cunt
>>8265838
>>They only have the second Game of Thrones
>>Take Juego de Tronos upstairs
the second book is called Choque de Reyes fucking liar pleb GET OUT
>Tfw live in small suburban town
>All the homeless are respectable people using the computers to look for jobs
>Worst I have to deal with is dumb kids running around
>>8265838
>go to downtown library
>Everyone is black or hispanic
Oh man do I know these feels.
None of them are ever reading, either; just walking around and hollering at each other. I don't know why they're there, I guess it's either to get out of the summer heat or because they're just used to hanging out in places the government maintains.
this. so much of this.
>>8272309
far left voted leave.
>>8272309
Yeah, Corbyn is famous for wanting to stay in the EU.
>>8273282
Anyone else agree Lovecraft is better horror than Beckford, Maturin, Shelley, Godwin, and Lewis? He uses patrician terror defined by Radcliffe over pleb horror like in The Monk.
>>8273531
You would have to be utterly cucked to have any opinion one way or another. The un-cucked realised that the EU and UK were equals.
>>8273291
Is that why they're still throwing protests in London concerning the outcome of the referendum?
Retard.
>>8273572
Of course they were. How were they different?
None, but I once found arata muertabesides a set of my books while they were residenced at a temporary domain.
That was spooky.
no but i got locked in the school library overnight once
The worst thing that's ever happened to me in a library is being slightly embarrassed over checking books like Lolita out, and this was before the self-scan machines they have everywhere now.
Book stores on the other hand.
>>8266504
this phenomenon seems to happen almost everywhere in the developed world. I live in Asia and I have seen this happen at least three separate times.
>>8266324
The world is a dark place.
>>8272431
>they're just used to hanging out in places the government maintains.
ha!
>>8269497
Managed to wake people up next door with how much I laughed. Good work.
>>8265664
anna is very attractive
>>8268999
>>he then tells me it's tree fiddy and refuses to take the bar back
>>starts dancing around like a gorilla and screaming to intimidate me into paying
>>well it was about this time I noticed that this hobo was about 8 stories tall and was a crustacean from the protozoic era
>>damn you loch ness monster I ain't givin' you tree fiddy
mfw
>be unemployed friendless kissless virgin shut in
>spend all day reading books or pretending to have read books on a Nepalese stamp collecting forum
>actually decide to go outside for God knows what reason
>go to library because it's the only place I can afford on my neetbux
>place is filled with other people who don't look like me
>Why are they using the free internet here? Can't they just get their mom to buy them a computer?
>grab first Gene Wolfe I can find
>one of the brown people stands too close in the checkout line
>run out the door with out checking out, alarms going off behind me
>realize I've already read this one
>go home and blog about my near death experience on /lit/
>>8270985
cringe
>>8269080
this
uk libraries are so calm and its nothing but kids doing their homework or people looking for jobs/sending out cv's and old fags relaxing reading papers
>>8269124
>my brother is the size of 3 books
There are books in our library.
THE HORROR.
Here's a horror story for you. My comfy library that was decked out with nice wood and carpeting is getting a "modern" update. White walls, weird shape walkways and big windows allowing you to see across the entire library.
>>8273351
most genre fiction is godawful but Lovecraft is my boy
