Epic fail of RSL
This post is a small report on a visit to the Russian State Library. Lenin with all the truth, as it is.
So, on arrival in Moscow, the idea crept in to me that it was worth visiting the RSL.
I walked ready for anything and in a positive mood.
I was clearly explained that before visiting the library I have to make a library card. In the space provided for this, I met an electronic queue, which pleased me. It turned out that the library card was electronic, with a photograph. The photo is taken on site by a webcam, issued for 5 years and costs only 100 rubles. I made it without any problems for an international passport (Russian of course), I was pleased that in this regard, the woman approached the situation adequately. You can visit the library right away, but for some reason I returned a few days later.
When I appeared at the RSL the next time, then, as the holder of a library card, I went to the main entrance. At the entrance there was a metal detector, which, of course, squeaked on my macbook, but what alerted me: the security guard did not even bother to check, but simply said to pass. Haha, he knew what a bloody hell awaits me inside.
At the entrance is a wardrobe, but since I was in a light sweatshirt, I decided to go through like this. But I was detained by the grandmother at the entrance (with another metal detector!)
- What is it you have hanging there?
- Backpack, I have a laptop in it.
- No no, all the sports stuff in the wardrobe.
- Well, it is inconvenient to carry everything.
- Nothing, nothing, we and the girls carry the laptops separately.
Okay, to hell with you, grandma, went to the wardrobe. I took out the macbook, charging into my pocket - standing in line. My turn is coming, already another grandma:
- Hey you come here.
- Where?
- Here, inside - you will hang up the backpack.
The question is, why do you even work?
')
Well, okay, things passed - let me go. Before me is a large staircase and a hall with a catalog. I see electronic terminals, trying to get the information I need on “Digital signal processing”, but the only thing that the terminal gives me is “Russian History of the late 17th century”, and I cannot change the query.
I ask the women who are sitting there, working with the terminal.
- Uh, terminals don't work.
-I have a personal computer, can I access the directory information through it?
(minute pause)
-We don't know what you're talking about. Below there is an electronic catalog - go there.
Okay, I went to the basement, to the electronic catalog.
It looks decent, computers stand. Most of the LCD, although somewhere in the CRT ...
Sit down, look - installed Windows XP, IE6, MS Word (???) and, of course, Kaspersky Anti-Virus.
Everything is terribly slow (it takes 3 minutes to wait for IE to start, and a minute after each click), there is no Internet connection.
I was surprised by the fact of using IE6 as a browser, especially after Operation Aurora . And also the use of proprietary software is not clear, though it could be successfully replaced with any Linux graphical system and Open Office.
Although partly understandable, another way to "launder" money.
So, I try to find the literature that interests me. With difficulty of course, but I find. And then the question arises: "how can I get these books to read."
I’m not a stupid person, but I couldn’t figure it out, so I went to the girl who runs the hall. She explained to me that I can order books from the catalog electronically, or, if they are before 1999, then only by paper request. Well, I decided to try out an e-mail request, because the necessary books were quite fresh.
This, to be honest, was the last straw of my patience, since the answer to my request was “your book will be issued to you at 15.10 of the NEXT DAY.”
“Oh, to hell with you,” I think I'll go sit somewhere with the Internet, read from my computer, write another coursework. I ask whether it is possible to sit down somewhere and connect to the Internet via wifi, from my point of view in the 21st century this is quite normal ...
The answer was: "And we everywhere have access to the Internet for a fee, and if you don’t order a book, go away"
I think about myself “go with your library to the forest” and leave.
Trying to get out
- And you did not fill in the leaf ... (this is the so-called “mustard plaster” who knows)
- So I did not take anything
-Well, we still have to fill out without it.
This is what I don’t understand in this situation: why issue cards if you don’t enjoy their benefits? Using a card and a single database, you can tell who I am, when I came, where I went, what I took, when I took it, etc. So do not, let's use these old "Soviet mustard plaster".
Filling out a piece of paper, I finally broke out of this hellish library.
At the exit, I saw a girl with whom I came in, and who, apparently, also could not stand the “test” of the library.
In my opinion, this is real epic fail of the RSL, otherwise you can’t tell.
So, on arrival in Moscow, the idea crept in to me that it was worth visiting the RSL.
I walked ready for anything and in a positive mood.
I was clearly explained that before visiting the library I have to make a library card. In the space provided for this, I met an electronic queue, which pleased me. It turned out that the library card was electronic, with a photograph. The photo is taken on site by a webcam, issued for 5 years and costs only 100 rubles. I made it without any problems for an international passport (Russian of course), I was pleased that in this regard, the woman approached the situation adequately. You can visit the library right away, but for some reason I returned a few days later.
When I appeared at the RSL the next time, then, as the holder of a library card, I went to the main entrance. At the entrance there was a metal detector, which, of course, squeaked on my macbook, but what alerted me: the security guard did not even bother to check, but simply said to pass. Haha, he knew what a bloody hell awaits me inside.
At the entrance is a wardrobe, but since I was in a light sweatshirt, I decided to go through like this. But I was detained by the grandmother at the entrance (with another metal detector!)
- What is it you have hanging there?
- Backpack, I have a laptop in it.
- No no, all the sports stuff in the wardrobe.
- Well, it is inconvenient to carry everything.
- Nothing, nothing, we and the girls carry the laptops separately.
Okay, to hell with you, grandma, went to the wardrobe. I took out the macbook, charging into my pocket - standing in line. My turn is coming, already another grandma:
- Hey you come here.
- Where?
- Here, inside - you will hang up the backpack.
The question is, why do you even work?
')
Well, okay, things passed - let me go. Before me is a large staircase and a hall with a catalog. I see electronic terminals, trying to get the information I need on “Digital signal processing”, but the only thing that the terminal gives me is “Russian History of the late 17th century”, and I cannot change the query.
I ask the women who are sitting there, working with the terminal.
- Uh, terminals don't work.
-I have a personal computer, can I access the directory information through it?
(minute pause)
-We don't know what you're talking about. Below there is an electronic catalog - go there.
Okay, I went to the basement, to the electronic catalog.
It looks decent, computers stand. Most of the LCD, although somewhere in the CRT ...
Sit down, look - installed Windows XP, IE6, MS Word (???) and, of course, Kaspersky Anti-Virus.
Everything is terribly slow (it takes 3 minutes to wait for IE to start, and a minute after each click), there is no Internet connection.
I was surprised by the fact of using IE6 as a browser, especially after Operation Aurora . And also the use of proprietary software is not clear, though it could be successfully replaced with any Linux graphical system and Open Office.
Although partly understandable, another way to "launder" money.
So, I try to find the literature that interests me. With difficulty of course, but I find. And then the question arises: "how can I get these books to read."
I’m not a stupid person, but I couldn’t figure it out, so I went to the girl who runs the hall. She explained to me that I can order books from the catalog electronically, or, if they are before 1999, then only by paper request. Well, I decided to try out an e-mail request, because the necessary books were quite fresh.
This, to be honest, was the last straw of my patience, since the answer to my request was “your book will be issued to you at 15.10 of the NEXT DAY.”
“Oh, to hell with you,” I think I'll go sit somewhere with the Internet, read from my computer, write another coursework. I ask whether it is possible to sit down somewhere and connect to the Internet via wifi, from my point of view in the 21st century this is quite normal ...
The answer was: "And we everywhere have access to the Internet for a fee, and if you don’t order a book, go away"
I think about myself “go with your library to the forest” and leave.
Trying to get out
- And you did not fill in the leaf ... (this is the so-called “mustard plaster” who knows)
- So I did not take anything
-Well, we still have to fill out without it.
This is what I don’t understand in this situation: why issue cards if you don’t enjoy their benefits? Using a card and a single database, you can tell who I am, when I came, where I went, what I took, when I took it, etc. So do not, let's use these old "Soviet mustard plaster".
Filling out a piece of paper, I finally broke out of this hellish library.
At the exit, I saw a girl with whom I came in, and who, apparently, also could not stand the “test” of the library.
In my opinion, this is real epic fail of the RSL, otherwise you can’t tell.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/89482/
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