Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Question for the DT: if you’re in some kind of online community like this one, a Facebook group etc, and someone posts asking if anyone has a specific book, do you think replies of “have you tried the library?” are a) fair enough or b) NO FUCKING SHIT SHERLOCK THAT WAS THE FIRST THING I DID ? I see these posts often and people always respond with the library advice, and sometimes the OP will reply and say yes I already tried the library but they don’t have it hence me asking.
When I see someone asking for a book title, I assume they have, you know, CHECKED THE LIBRARY.
It depends a bit on the community it’s in. “Have you tried the library?” could be a suggestion designed to actually be helpful, or it could be a way of saying “this group is not an F%#*$ library, go and ask somewhere that’s actually supposed to hook you up with books”.
