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Der bei Reddit eingestellte Post behandelt die Frage, ob Bibliotheken der „Dritte Ort“ sind, wonach gesucht wird. 339 Kommentare begleiten diesen (Stand: 20.03.2025).

Grundlage ist nachfolgender Artikel.

„Are Libraries the New ‘Third Places’ We’re Looking For?“ vom 18.02.2025

https://www.governing.com/urban/are-libraries-the-new-third-places-were-looking-for (Abgerufen am: 20.03.2025)

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[A_Guy195] „Public libraries are some of the few places that someone can enter and enjoy its contents completely for free, with no or very limited barriers. In the world that we live in, it’s good to remember that, and not take it for granted. Hopefully more such third places will appear in the future.“

[dillybar1992] „I mentioned this on a different post about the current war on libraries in the US: Join your local library”friends of the library” group. For a fairly minuscule fee, you essentially become a board member (not literally) and can help make decisions for the library. The money goes directly to the library and it’s a great way to stay involved and advocate for the continued access to information and resources for your whole community. We can’t allow libraries to be taken away.“

[MysteriousGoldDuck] „Unpopular opinion: It’s great that they still exist when all other third places are disappearing, but I fear that, like the public schools which keep taking on more and more of the responsibility for raising children, they’re taking on too much of the responsibility of being THE third space. To be clear, I fully support the right of everyone from families to the homeless to teenagers to whoever being able to use the library, but in the past, all these groups also had other options, so the focus on the library was still mostly people who wanted/needed the services of the library. Like, it would be teenagers studying, adults going to a book club, homeless people who actually wanted to read something instead of those that just needed a place to escape the weather outside, parents taking their kids to pick out books but not using it as a daycare, etc. I’m not explaining it well, but my recent experiences with libraries have been noisy compared to days of old and the police and/or security are always literally walking around these buildings all the time, which, as someone who grew up in times before that was the norm, makes me feel uneasy.“