tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179072149199219335.post2363308823351046461..comments2024-02-14T15:13:21.422-05:00Comments on Aging Gratefully: The public libraryJunehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11710135137635433217noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179072149199219335.post-8122318223247060052010-08-29T13:00:42.867-04:002010-08-29T13:00:42.867-04:00Oh , library envy !
Ours is very fine , good shel...Oh , library envy ! <br />Ours is very fine , good shelving , loadsa books , an excellent English section .... ah! And there you have it ! <br />It's a Dutch library . Logical , but we English speakers are at the mercy of whoever decides what English book would interest our local public . <br />The music section , though , is very good . And I can , for a couple of Euros , order whatever is available from any library in Holland .<br />(The DIY check-in check-out is , as they all are , crap.)SmitoniusAndSonatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11210817141287881808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179072149199219335.post-25857843630282249672010-08-27T13:30:19.112-04:002010-08-27T13:30:19.112-04:00Your library is beautiful!!
Like you, I have stron...Your library is beautiful!!<br />Like you, I have strong and wonderful memories of my local library when I was a child... and guess what? At the age of 46 I have just this year started working in there as a library assistant - just in time for its centenary next year! I do love being there - it is so many things: comfort, familiarity, revelation. 8-)broken birohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06233920262119205474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179072149199219335.post-5339529881706906932010-08-22T05:35:35.886-04:002010-08-22T05:35:35.886-04:00Vicki Lane, I'm pleased that a money-making pu...Vicki Lane, I'm pleased that a money-making published author, feel that way about libraries. I shuddered a little when I thought about you reading this . . . hoped you wouldn't find offense in borrowing rather than buying.Junehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11710135137635433217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179072149199219335.post-10744044511879123462010-08-21T18:10:12.094-04:002010-08-21T18:10:12.094-04:00Omigosh! What a beautiful library! We have a lovel...Omigosh! What a beautiful library! We have a lovely new purpose-built library but I still miss our old one that occupied a space that had been a Belk's store and still had the triple mirrors here and there on the walls along with lovely creaking wooden floors.<br /><br />Your post expresses my feelings for libraries to a T.Vicki Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08114677510459055768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179072149199219335.post-44023408183567293332010-08-21T17:47:30.988-04:002010-08-21T17:47:30.988-04:00Beth, Oh good for you! Saving books would come, fo...Beth, Oh good for you! Saving books would come, for me, second only to saving animals.<br /><br />Linda Myers, maybe that's why I stopped going to the library too...the time pressure. No worries, though, I find. Every spare hour finds me with a book in my hands!<br /><br />Friko, never fear. It is <b>My Opinion</b> that Readers get to live many lives. Without all the effort. ;-p <br /><br />#1Nana, I think libraries have already assimilated e-copies of books into their catalogs. Like Friko, I love the feel of a book in my hands, but there are definitely circumstances when e-readers are a godsend.<br /><br />Autumn Mist, hah! There was one vacation on which I took a SUITCASE full of books. Husband was not pleased. :-*<br /><br />Those of us who find books to be more than a source of literary entertainment, but a <i><b>sensual pleasure</b></i> seem to be great in number. I'm so glad.Junehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11710135137635433217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179072149199219335.post-6718669311926751802010-08-21T17:11:53.769-04:002010-08-21T17:11:53.769-04:00What a beautiful building to have a library in. I...What a beautiful building to have a library in. I can't live without a library in the vicinity. The last time I took my books back, hubby had to prize them out of my hands and take them in for me so I didn't choose anything else before going on holiday!Autumn Misthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13970884029498352422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179072149199219335.post-25627676981551953362010-08-21T16:45:29.251-04:002010-08-21T16:45:29.251-04:00Beautiful library. Ours was built when my childre...Beautiful library. Ours was built when my children were small. The outside wall is covered with donor bricks. I haven't looked at our family one for ages...must check on my next visit.<br /><br />With the advent of devices such as Kindle, I wonder how libraries will change?#1Nanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04214011945298439939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179072149199219335.post-92213907573592003982010-08-21T12:23:08.924-04:002010-08-21T12:23:08.924-04:00Any room, any house with books will do for me too....Any room, any house with books will do for me too.<br />The room I am sitting in now is book-lined. The smell, holding a book, feeling its weight, all priceless. The worlds one disappears into, endless. The deep sigh of satisfaction and sadness at the same time when a book is finished. It is often hard to let go of the characters of a book; a well-peopled book makes one feel one knows the characters and one will meet them and recognise them.<br /><br />Perhaps i should get a life?Frikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04277167831642088694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179072149199219335.post-36857287973328174142010-08-21T12:21:27.529-04:002010-08-21T12:21:27.529-04:00I love our tiny community library - it's where...I love our tiny community library - it's where I pick up my online orders. I skipped the library for many years and just bought what I needed, because I was working and didn't think I'd have time to read the book before it came due. Now, I've got a stack of my own on my nightstand while I put the one library book on the top of the stack. <br /><br />Heaven!Linda Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05706455533282204519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179072149199219335.post-36361176966224420452010-08-21T12:11:19.542-04:002010-08-21T12:11:19.542-04:00What a gorgeous library and meditation on librarie...What a gorgeous library and meditation on libraries. Your post reminded me that just three years ago we worked as volunteers in New Orleans in a musty basement, uncrating and sorting through boxes of books destroyed by the effects of Katrina. Here in Spokane, we have that same wonderful online ordering system. I hate to say it but I have 24 books checked out right now. And today is Trip to the Library Day!!!!Beth Camphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12682622561621269515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179072149199219335.post-54931408021128424362010-08-21T11:56:26.105-04:002010-08-21T11:56:26.105-04:00threecollie, I've seen pictures of your booksh...threecollie, I've seen pictures of your bookshelves...I thought you might react that way... ;-)<br /><br />LW, I wish there were a guest suite; I'd spend holidays there. Maybe a small cot in the foyer, where the marble-topped Victorian hall tree is, would suffice?Junehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11710135137635433217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179072149199219335.post-64651831942205305492010-08-21T11:32:34.048-04:002010-08-21T11:32:34.048-04:00Does that library have a guest-suite? As always, ...Does that library have a guest-suite? As always, dearest June, your posts do not disappoint. I felt the tingle of anticipation walking through the door, my nostrils widened with the scent of old wood and literature. A small suite would suffice--I'll bring my own coffee and step-stool.Lord Wellbournehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16871295386557996816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-179072149199219335.post-28052401649454247302010-08-21T06:53:00.314-04:002010-08-21T06:53:00.314-04:00You speak to my heart.You speak to my heart.threecolliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05811004278088768813noreply@blogger.com