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Socialized civil services aren't communism. Communism is more like worker ownership of the means of production. Typically here it's used to signify the potential end stage of socialist building, a "stateless moneyless society".
Libraries are cool, but they're not communism.
Libraries could easily be adapted to fit Communism, most of the ground work is already set up, you might have to make some changes for it to work under communism as defined.
While they might not be communism they do share a lot of similar principles to communism. While their might not be a lot of specific production, collective ownership is also an important key to communism, which libraries share.
One person can borrow a copy of a book and then months later another person could get that same copy in their own household.
What is your understanding of communism?
I understand communism to be a classless society, to have Collective (or common) ownership of the means of productions. Along with the absence of money eventually. Or at least it aims to for most of these things.
Libraries meet most of this, if not all of it.
Libraries are not a whole society.
They are funded by property taxes, harvested under capitalism, and beholden to a web of reactionary shitlib beaurocracy.
Like I said depending on the environment, you can make small changes to how libraries work to fit it under communism. It doesn't *have to be like that just because it is in certain locations with their own ways of doing things.