i've worked at a more typical kind of library and we've handed out needles before. Some cities do it as initiatives to reduce needle sharing and curb HIV and hepatitis. I could believe some library boxes have needle kits.
Depends on the library. I worked at one over 10 years ago and there was a low intensity battle between the head librarian (a cool former hippy guy with a pleasant demeanor) and the city appointed nepotism hire head of library resources (a bitter racist lady who was an open young earth creationist).
Since the resources lady was married to some city official, she had more away on her side to completely remove stuff from our science section. She kept removing stuff about black history too. Right when I was leaving she was having a fight, that she framed in terms of grant money, to install an explicitly evangelical wing of the library complete with a Bible study corner and regular visits from her preacher.
We had a more normal Bible study group that would meet on Wednesdays and even they were against her. America sucks.
those "Little Free Libraries" are usually virtue signalling used in racist petite bourgeois suburbs
“The Free Little Library” was never intended to actually provide books to those who need them, but to give affluent neighborhoods a homey, quirky, intellectual, benevolent aesthetic.
In Denver, the same neighborhoods that have them are the ones that vote to make it illegal for homeless people to exist, because they don’t like the idea of homeless people being near their homes.
This has been an issue in Denver for YEARS, and yet the same neighborhoods that vote for these bans have SO many Free Little Libraries.
THEY LIVE IS A DOCUMENTARY 👁️
I bet nazis had something similar, extremely soy attempt at resolving the contradictions of class society. Literary Karens are just as disgusting as any illiterate fascists!!!
What a specious argument. These neighborhoods also have milk in them. Does that make all neighborhoods with milk racist? These things also exist in every major city, look around.
Reading some of these comments you'd think they build little free libraries by dismantling actual libraries, I think some of you could stand to take it down a notch
I think it's just that people associate them with rich neighborhoods but that's still kinda dumb and immature, like how about worry about something that's actually bad instead of vaguely associated with some of the beneficiaries of a bad thing.