Libraries have always been one of my favorite places in this world. I first discovered the place as a child, and have since had a special place in my heart for all things library related.
This month, we celebrate Library Sign-up Month. Can you remember your first library card. (My first one was a piece of cardboard, with my name written on the front.) Every time I walk into a library, I know that I'm in a special place (a place of magic and the imagination; of travel and adventure). I can go anywhere in this world or beyond through the pages of a good book.
It doesn't matter how threadbare the carpet is, nor does it matter how many (or few) books are on the shelves. It's a LIBRARY!
Emily Dickinson once wrote:
"A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think,
"His venerable hand to take,
And warming in our own,
A passage back, or two, to make
To times when he was young."
Here's the full poem. Also, find more lines and other resources related to libraries...
Comments
I love libraries, and here in the UK we are having the same problems as in the US. We also are having to fight threats of closures. Libraries are so helpful, when you move you can go straight into them (in this country anyway) and get the locations and addresses for a doctor, etc. Although nowadays I suppose it is just as easy to look on-line. If you haven’t got internet access you can get that, as well as borrowing dvds and cds, and audio books.
The great thing is that you can usually find books that are no longer in general print, or that you wouldn’t normally buy, due to expense or the fact that you would hardly use them.
grеat pοѕt I’m a huge City fan from amsterdam