Library - Blog Posts
It’s a beautiful day, and you are a horrible goose loose in the library
This is just The Magnus Institute.
Also non book stuff too, DVDs, CDs, audiobooks, ebooks, 3d printing (not everywhere but more places than you'd think), computer access, bathrooms!
And lots of libraries have self-checkout now if you don't want to interact with anybody! Although it's good to get to know your library staff if that's an option since they're great resources.
Libraries are such an incredible resource and as a voracious reader I am so thankful we get to enjoy them!
...I had a guy come in today asking about how to get his kids library cards. I told him. He asked me how hard it would be for them to get them, and I said that all it took was their presence and his government ID.
He told me about how nice the system was here, where it was so easy to get a card; he said that there was a beautiful public library in Beijing that was top of the line and everything, but that the only way to access it was if you were a high ranking government official or a top professor or something. Instead, our library "serves the reader." His kids will be able to take chapter books home at no cost. He'll even be able to get books in Chinese here so that his native language skills don't atrophy.
I didn't even really know what to say, so I told him how to ask us to buy books for him that we don't already have so that he can still read them at no extra cost. I don't know how to shore up what it must feel like to know that there are books out there you can't read; I've always grown up with a good library nearby. It reminded me of working in my old library, though, where families who spoke Spanish were startled to find out we took any government ID with a formal address in town— even foreign IDs— so that their kids could get access to all of our titles in all the languages we offered.
Ah. Anyway, I hope you check out a library book with this thought in mind. I checked out the first volume of YJ98 today with that thought in mind. I didn't have to pay anything. I put it on hold, and there it was.
Library in Bridgeport Living room library - small eclectic enclosed medium tone wood floor, brown floor and wood ceiling living room library idea with green walls, a standard fireplace, a brick fireplace and no tv
Contemporary Family Room - Library
A picture of a mid-sized, modern, open-concept family room library with blue walls but no television
Home Office in Ottawa
Inspiration for a mid-sized contemporary home office library remodel
Industrial Living Room Example of a large urban open concept light wood floor living room library design with white walls, a wood stove and no tv
Houston Library Home Office
Inspiration for a large mediterranean freestanding desk medium tone wood floor and brown floor home office library remodel with white walls
Library New York
Large transitional enclosed living room library idea with white walls, a wood fireplace surround, a wall-mounted television, and a standard fireplace
Enclosed - Library Inspiration for a large transitional enclosed dark wood floor and brown floor family room library remodel with blue walls, no fireplace and a media wall
Library Living Room in Toronto
Mid-sized coastal enclosed living room library plan with white walls, a wood surround for the fireplace, a conventional fireplace, and a media wall.
New York Library Living Room Mid-sized transitional open concept living room library idea with a media wall and gray walls. Dark wood flooring.
I never want to hear conservatives go on about repressive censorship in China, North Korea, and Iran ever again
Allow me to assure you, as a librarian, that if you as a concerned citizen present us with a list of Books that are Bad and should Not Be In Our Collection and which you Require us to Remove At Once, we will scan it for titles that we don’t have yet to add to our purchase list.
Day 3 of Semester 4 as Marine Biology Undergraduate ❤🐋
Today's view 😇
Wow, who knew?
New on the Houghton Library Blog, early 20th century sheet music featuring male impersonators.
Sheet Music 273 and 280
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Normal people: *go to the library to grab a book and go*
Me: *go to library to smell the books and huddle in the corner behind a mountain I've created out of Oscar Wilde novels*
now all I need is to have a large library in an old house, which is located on the outskirts of a small town, with a lot of magic books that can help make a potion for a variety of purposes, cure a person or predict the future
Worldly, with, Wonder
A lot of the public support of libraries is that they are places of great connection, education and comfort that will improve the community. I praise libraries that host book clubs, political discussions, gardening events, work to get children to read; but other times my trek has to do with only myself to find peace in isolation.
Feeling overwhelmed, lost or uncertain, books and the library can be a peaceful place to rest, decompress and wait to come back to the world. In addition to being a community resource, libraries are one of the few places where quiet peacefulness is put as a higher priority than usual; children may be in a separate area and aren’t criticized for being too loud but gently reminded. Here, where you may easily allow yourself to detach from notifications and screens, you can let your brain recharge and breathe peacefully, letting the stories of others wash over and take you away
Les cousins, 1959 (dir. Claude Chabrol)
Libraries
I love libraries, I always have. The insurmountable access to books and all the information they contain and may provide, always makes my heart completely burst (especially the reference sections that discuss religion, culture, and historical past times).
Here is Trinity college, a famous library. Most people don't appreciate their local library as much as they fawn over this one thou. My local library, the library I grew up with, that’s the one that just makes me happy and comfortable, just thinking about it as I am now.
Whether it’s those little boxes on a yard where people can exchange books for free, a large historic university library inside an old castle or cathedral where some King once studied, or your modern library down the street that lets you take out electronic books: love your local library! GO to your local library! There are movies, there is music, there are boos, there are sessions about plays and scientific questions and just so much can be done at libraries.
Think of a library as the Wood Between the Worlds, every book can take you to an entirely different place, and you won’t feel so bored, or lonely. Love your local library, be loving to your local library
1st book: HP
If I ever had to choose a favorite book, it would be Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Bought by my mother because of it’s rampant success in England, it was and still is a very important book for me. The series was the first new-generations understanding of youth activism, feminism, equality and kindness. But the first book was, for lack of a better word as this word doesn’t seem to do it justice, home. I, like all great books, was taken out of my world to another place where I found friends and a family, and security. It gave me confidence, hope and connection while pushing me and allowing me to feel safe, all at the same time.
But Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is not my favorite books because of the story, a particular character or author, time period or residual feeling of inspiration. While it is one that continues to connect to me, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is my favorite book just because it is my home, my base and my beginning of reading. While I read before Harry Potter and surely would’ve read without it, the first chapter can always make me smile and bring me back to really beginning to love reading and experiencing that other world and how much books can bring joy, compassion and comfort. This book, that will always be my favorite book, represents more than even the world of Harry Potter represents to me with the characters and connections; it does in fact just represents me and my child hood and my love of reading and excitement to learn.
All of the Harry Potter books will always have a place with me, but Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first and the strongest and the one that can always bring me back to the places I love. Happy National Book Month