Santa Monica Public Library — Attraction in Santa Monica

Nice setting, got in trouble someone complained to security that I wasn't wearing shoes while I was reading a stack of books in the courtyard. My feet were black probably from the shoes themselves. And my angle of lying down was improper. I was resting my back from carrying 40-50 lbs of stuff on my shoulders. The people are kind of funny here.

There are so many washed up people waiting to here from an agent who will never call or persistence in writing a lame manuscript. The people I did want to talk to I was unable to do so because I guess I was too shy and people don't typically take me up on friendship offers if we meet while at the library. I also think the library should offer more technical books and not just an array of filler material which has been insightful, I mean alot of random blokes are offered book offers, when other people are carefully in the sidelines waiting for just some seed money. I read a biography of an Asian guy that showed he really did have a mental illness of bipolar and is paid $250,000/yr in Hong Kong to be a finance person, when the computer really does all the work anyway. So it broke down some stereotypes. I liked reading about some other topics and a little frustrated at my slow paced reading time.

This library lets me use the computer for 2 hrs a day. So maybe if I am in LA longer than 1 week I will be at this library on Thursdays when FNB Food FOR NOT BOMBS is here offering free vegetarian food and treating us ok.

I suggested that the computer lab be open to seniors and disabled persons who may want to utilize the computers more often and keep their privacy away from some of the sketch people who aren't homeless yet don't appear to be working because they clog the library for many hours during the day. Its weird glancing over to other screens and seeing what these older people are looking at cat videos on youtube. I haven't heard back from the way overpaid administrators of...

I love this library , the non-homeless and homeless that go to it. If Americans werent so sadistic about their community and cared more instead of saying not in my backyard youd have less problems with mentally ill homeless crowding your library. I'm a homeless student and to be honest. I think the well to do (most of you) need your selfish teeth knocked out. You read right. The homeless didn't ruin your library you evil excuses of people! Your leaders in D.C. ruined it, at the end of the day. It's called mental health hospitals and veterans care. Which have been ignored nationally for way too long. I kind of hope a crippled veteran tosses his fingernail clippings at some of you pretentious douchebags. I've heard most of your conversations to yourselves and you mostly all sound very ignorant. Effin slaves! As far as the addicts(tweekers in particular) go, if law enforcement itself wasn't aiding the drugs incoming path into ALL cities like they are for job security, said drugs wouldn't be available on the streets anyhow. A D.E.A. agent in Detroit once told me "It's job security son, mind your own". I've seen an officer or two in SM sniff a line, get in their car and speed around after midnight running red lights for fun. So before ANYBODY criticizes the homeless, you might want to look in the mirror folks. Nobodies perfect, avoid forgetting that. It'll do you well.

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Excellent library but the covid policy I'm not allowing patrons to replace books that have been lost or stolen by ordering brand new copies on Amazon is preventing other patrons of the library who may have those books on hold, or the books may be part of a series with one book missing that's a library won't replace because they don't have the funds. They are punishing the patrons so they will complain to the city. In my case a book I just checked out was stolen the same day in the library. It was a brand new book and several people had it on hold. I was told that I had to pay for the cost of the book plus an additional fine which I did willingly even though I was told that the library wasn't going to use those funds to replace the book that was stolen in the library the same day I checked it out. I ordered the book on Amazon because I knew there were people waiting for it. It was written by a very popular author, Harry Turtledove. Several different librarians told me that they couldn't accept the book even though I had already paid the fine and cost of replacing the book. I begged and begged and begged until finally one librarian whose name will not be mentioned, decided to break the rules and accept the book and put it back on...