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@titania it is 😂 also appreciated the note in the tags that the dwarves also call him staff man. Like yep, we all agree that’s his defining trait okay

@platypus i am glad you are both in one piece!

@platypus 😰

@netkitty fortunately its disability pride month for the whole month, so you didnt miss anything by waiting a few days!

@titania well i hope you enjoy the gossip then 😂

@titania aw so not the good kind of sworn enemyship

@pastelsinmysky yay new desk!!

@yesterdaychild aww i hope you find them!

@platypus its always seemed odd to me bc yeah as you say the buildings location sure does seem to be across from the highschool on purpose. But then everything is oriented exactly backwards for actually making that smooth and easy (a choice which is then compounded by the two buildings sharing a bus stop on route 10, so even non-students are getting dropped off by the school and approaching from the southwest

@platypus wow those are some color choices! i can’t tell if i’d be into it or find the whole thing overwhelming.

i think technically the door still exists but its been pretty hidden by landscaping (and maybe also permanently locked). The visual “front” of the building is p clearly the parking-lot entrance (which faces north) So coming from Delaware Ave you are seemingly supposed walk all the way past the building on the library ave sidewalk and then cut across the parking lot. If there was a south side entrance, or just some better landscaping on the south side indicating that its a public part of the library that people are welcome to hang out in it’d work a lot smoother imo

@platypus I was living in Wilmington in the 2000’s! at the time I would have been using Wilmington Public Library, or Woodlawn Library while Wilmington was closed for renovations.

I moved to Newark in 2021, so my experiences re:walkability are all p recent

@platypus there’s a bus stop outside newark high school, so usually i’m coming up delaware ave which is like, technically walkable but also means you come up on the back of the building with basically no indication of where you should be heading to actually get inside. so weird to figure out, especially the first time I went. Which sucks because libraries should be welcoming to people traveling by bus/bike/foot! Those are usually the people most in need of library services!

I hope we can solidly blame that one on the 70’s and do something better with the new building!

@platypus the misrepresentation does seem likely to annoy the many older community members who remember the redesign 😅

that said i def agree that some aspects of the library are due for an upgrade, particularly the lack of outdoor spaces (its fine if you drive in and park but the current library is weirdly intimidating to approach on foot right now) and i don’t particularly care if it’s due for an upgrade bc the 2000s were a long time ago or the 1970s were haha