Project Suggestion: Public Libraries
Dear members of the SLAP-Gaming minecraft server, I've a new idea for a project I might make, please take a moment of your time if you are interested in enriching our server's community.
Basically, as the title suggests, the project is to make public libraries, the libraries will be held on plots, up to one per town, but not all the towns, mostly the new towns.
The Library will function in either two ways, let me first describe way one:
The first way is to have a pay library, you pay for a book, and you get ALL the money back when you return it, unless you are late in returning it, and also might be fined extra, if not accused for stealing, which is basically a bannable offence.
- This method will involve members of a town as volunteers working at the library with access to books and making sure the books are safe.
However, I believe way number two is the best, mostly because it most practical and it has nearly no flaws, but it might not be possible, let me explain:
The second way is having the books available 24/7 and accessible through a [book] sign, a pending suggestion that wasn't approved yet nor been rejected, the benefit of this method is that the books cannot be stolen at all(except the owner of the sign), and they are accessible 24/7 to everyone, you can just click the sign, and read the book!
Why is it that better than the first way?
Even if you take out of account the chances of books being lost or stolen in the first way, which btw might take precious time of our staff to dealing with it, then we also have the issue of book copying, as you should know, VIPs are able to copy books, and as of 1.7, books can be copied by everyone in an efficient way, but that would result in breaking the copyrights of the book writer, that will happen if a book will be copied than later sold or used by some generic library.... in other words, it would be stealing, we want books to be read, and not be sold or abused without the writer's approval.
! - If you want to express your support in the [book] sign suggestion, or read more about what does it suppose to do, just go to the suggestion page, here's a direct link, make sure to like it if you support it, so it will be proved as useful in the eyes of the server's higher ups. link - http://forums.slapgaming.com/showthread.php?8734-book-signs -!
What will the libraries offer?
- Each month, the books available will be replaced, but that doesn't mean that they will not be seen again, just not that month, this is to ensure having a variety of books and not reading the same books over and over.
-A special chest, with hopper, will be in any of the libraries, and is especially made for book donations, each month I, or any staff of the Quill library, will collect the books, check if their content is appropriate, and the next month, if there's a place in the libraries, the submitted books will be available, also, we'll try searching for the writer if we find his or her book good in it's quality, and we may give gifts and "royalties" for the book(s).
-We'll also have books available for sale, the books sold can be either premium books, or books that are or were available for all at the libraries, to give you the chance to enjoy your favorite books any time you want, we won't accuse copying the books as stealing in this method, as we are a no-profit library, but we'd appreciate you keeping them your own.
! - If the book sign suggestion is rejected, then we'll be looking for volunteers, but if we won't find enough volunteers, the project will be cancelled, but the books will still be available through our main library:The Quill Library, but with a fee, and low accessibility due to lack of staff and opening hours. - !
