We love our library!

Originally posted on my personal blog on September 10, 2005.

Our little rural library district was chosen “Library of the Month” by WebJunction — a national library web site. The article is here. We love our library — and they know us all by name. Natalie and Noah both have their own cards, and Natalie is being featured in this month’s library newsletter as a girl who loves her library card. The staff always jokes that when we come in they get to empty their hold shelf.

I remember the library in the town I grew up in. I loved it there, too. One of the librarians was a dear family friend and frequent babysitter of me and my sisters, so we got special access to behind the counter. She helped me find all the really good books and was the first person to introduce me to “Anne-with-an-e”. I’m grateful my children also have a place to go with kind people who encourage their love of books and thirst for learning.

The Library
Barbara E. Huff

It looks like any building
When you pass it on the street,
Made of stone and glass and marble,
Made of iron and concrete.

But once inside you can ride
A camel or a train,
Visit Rome, Siam, or Nome,
Feel a hurricane,
Meet a king, learn to sing,
How to bake a pie,
Go to sea, plant a tree,
Find how airplanes fly,
Train a horse, and of course
Have all the dogs you’d like,
See the moon, a sandy dune,
Or catch a whopping pike.
Everything that books can bring
You’ll find inside those walls.
A world is there for you to share
When adventure calls.

You cannot tell its magic
By the way the building looks,
But there’s wonderment within it,
The wonderment of books.

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6 Responses to We love our library!

  1. I remember this post! Because I had to look up the Anne-with-an-e reference! (Now I can’t believe I never knew that!!!)
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  2. Sandy
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    It seems a shame to me too when people DON’T love their libraries. That is what they are there for! I loved mine growing up, and the one I have now is absolutely amazing. It is a huge library, so there is nothing personal experienced in a visit, but they literally have EVERYTHING you would ever want. (And they deliver to your home.)
    Sandy´s last post ..Monday Matinee: Argo (2012)

    • CarrieK
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      Sandy – I totally agree – which is why I get so ticked off when our library levy fails year after year. Even though it basically came down to $12 a year for a person with a $200,000 home, people won’t vote for it. Pisses me off.

  3. I love that poem! I am so using it this week when I go to the cities for out Library assessment training. :)
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