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    4.5 (2 reviews)

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    Asheville-Buncombe Library System - Reflections and shadows ! Ps. My photos

    Asheville-Buncombe Library System

    3.4(7 reviews)
    52.0 mi

    I'm sorry, I'm from New York State, and North Carolina, your library system SUCKS. Southern culture…read moreis more than "To Kill a Mockingbird." Anybody ever heard of a man called William Faulkner? Carson McCullers? Ring a bell? Walker Percy, one of the best American novelists EVER imho? This is an urban library- an urban library in a hip relevant very cool unique city, but when it comes to their library we're talking Harlequin romances in giant print. If you're really community-oriented and intellectual- as this city posits itself, the library should be so much more. It should be a cultural hub. Anyway, I find this library has a relative paucity of material. It needs to expand its section of classics. And for a city that calls itself progressive, how about some progressive literature? Thomas Pinketty, make the New York Times available. How about books on climate change, homesteading, crafting, DIY, farming, animal care, bicycling, Christianity, environmental concerns, Appalachian music, Appalachian culture, animals and plants of the region, history of the region, tourism, the Vanderbilts, the Biltmore Estate, the French Broad River, the Scots-Irish, the American South, the fight for civil rights equality, auto repair, mountain ecology, the Baptist religion, Hee Haw, the Scottish ballad tradition, snake handling, forestry, the Cherokee, Dolly Parton, Mount Mitchell, folk legends, Andrew Jackson, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, the Appalachian Trail, fiddling, clogging, kilts, rodeos, classic cars, logging, But, no. Harlequin romances in giant print, some third-rate hand-me-down same ol' same ol' pablum/fodder. It's like stale standards of the cathedral of general political correctness. Anyway, this is one of the few aspects of Western Carolina that makes me miss my NY roots.

    Love our local library system. Stop cutting their budget!!! Pay some taxes folks!!! Jeez this is…read moreAmerica!!! Thomas Jefferson espoused virtues of books and education for the masses. When libraries are laying off because of budget cuts, we miss opportunities for real early child development and a chance at community. Stop being skinflits!!!! Love the library!!!!!

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    Asheville-Buncombe Library System - September 2016. What a cool library!!

    September 2016. What a cool library!!

    Asheville-Buncombe Library System - Great spacious interior.

    Great spacious interior.

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    James B Duke Library

    James B Duke Library

    5.0(2 reviews)
    27.2 mi

    Public and private research libraries on Good to Ivy League -caliber quality campuses are always an…read moreinspiraional place to get both professional, non-scholarly remote work completed , although as another reviewer alluded to I am often distracted by the dozens and dozens of current, high-quality, peer reviewed and widely respected esoteric, more prosaic, and historic journals concerning every imaginable niche topic grouped under broader umbrellas of familiar branches of higher learning, for example, "Cancer Discovery," sounds straightforward enough ( until you see the amount of footnotes and almost spill your coffee. Too pedestrian? Traverse the grand , dark oak bookshelf -lined walls of the Grand Reading Room and pick a "Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene , " a journal about as thick as an Atlanta Phone book and grab a seat to perhaps read about best practices for proper hand washing in the maleria -choked jungles of Borneo? Nope! Highlights include: "Polymorphisms in Cytochrome P450 genes: implications for Plasmodium vivax malaria" treatment in Brazil

    I am not affiliated with Furman's library in any way. Yet it is open for me to peruse the books and…read moreto use the space and free wifi for studying. There is a fine selection of literature and lots of tables. Park by the chapel and walk across the green to the library. Patrons can take out a lending card for about 50 dollars.

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