-1 * due to excessive popular fiction. The tool library is really useful though. Can't complain about the location 2 Blocks from Berkeley Bowl. Kitchen items including cookie cutters and stand mixers doesn't that seem catering to the rich. Poor people who ride the bus are not going to likely bring a stand mixer back to the subsidized apartment. Poor people barely have enough money to ride the bus. This library is in some ways a real disappointment with only one oak table or birch table by the window. There are wobble tables by the check out desk. I might have overheard the male librarians refer to some patrons as the explicative deemed a polite form of address. There are 8 or 10 PC laptops for check out most likely only in the library. Seems like there was bad planning
What doesn't make sense is how the library book babysitter or overseer is paid staggering wages I mean salary. The poor can barely afford their resumes printed. You only get 4 pages of free printing a day. So a rich person checks out stand mixer to impress a dinner party with canapés. A rich person fills up the mongo shopping carts at Berkeley Bowl(s) with $400 hoarding food. Not like they live in the boondocks 3 hours from a gas station food store. I mean catering and pandering to your every wish. The library books are utter gutter goofish unrealistic portrayals of true mental illness living in a bubble world. And the feminist library supporters are backing the very books the majority of the books on the shelves are mysteries which the attacked is usually a f e male with a good job high income family wealth. never is a mystery about a poor street beggar that would appeal to none. The prices of the books are outrageous. Replacement of lost books is subject to retail
The wall relief of the goldleaf foil oak tree by the bathrooms is cool. At least its modern. Didn't see one technical book here to justify their awards on website whereas main library has a better selection. Hippie Food is...
Read moreThe feeling of the library is new and modern. There is a nice sunny room large enough for events. Bus route 12 bus stop is right outside the library. There is also a tool lending library here that includes kitchen items. The computers have quality headsets for use here. The books on display are upbeat thought provoking.
This is where I attended a writing club on Thursdays from 3 to 5. I have to say I really don't like most of the library books at Tarea Hall Pittman library because I wish there were more books on science and computer science. I go here when I have appointments nearby. Also it is more relaxing than Central with later hours on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Also wondering why Jennifer Doudna doesn't talk about co-recipient of the Nobel Prize Emmaneulle Charpentier in the biographies; most of the content of the book is about people and colleges yet not exactly science. I have reasons to suspect CRISPR cas9 is fake science and besides there are newer gene editing technologies called NICER and Bridge RNA according to the newsfeed I get.
I appreciated the writer's club that was going on but the leader reached their goal for their own writing project and we could use someone to take over that role. The tool lending library is here but I haven't used it yet. I don't think the library should use funds for mysteries. People can buy mysteries at Barnes & Noble or Amazon if they want these books. Mysteries are often about violence and tax payer funds shouldn't...
Read moreThis library is fairly quiet. The Wi-Fi is not that good. There are multiple times that it disconnects when I use it. I found out that the internet is capped on bandwidth for each device. This is for the entire Berkeley Public Library system. Don't use the internet if you need a large amount of internet usage. The only good thing about the Berkeley Public Library system is charging devices. This isn't a good work environment if you need to be online. The only thing that the internet is good for is very lite work. This would be things like...
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