Do you use libraries? I’m a librarian, and I love visiting different libraries. You can learn so much about a town or a neighborhood by looking at the displays and special sections. For example, the branch I work at is in a neighborhood where a lot of visiting professors at the University of Texas at Austin live. They’re from all over th…
Do you use libraries? I’m a librarian, and I love visiting different libraries. You can learn so much about a town or a neighborhood by looking at the displays and special sections. For example, the branch I work at is in a neighborhood where a lot of visiting professors at the University of Texas at Austin live. They’re from all over the world. We have a huge world languages section while other branches have primarily just Spanish. Another branch I worked at has mostly young families in the neighborhood. We always had captivating displays of kids’ books. We very often create a QR code that we include in a display or flyer. It gives patrons a list of similar books or a Spotify list of songs related to the books on display. Sometimes small town libraries have fascinating history exhibits.
I don’t buy many books anymore. Working at the library, I have access to a world of books without spending money (which is good on a librarian’s salary). What are some of the libraries in the DMV that I should stop by when I come to visit your and Mr. Tony’s neck of the woods.
I also feel that way about libraries, and remember visiting the library in the very small town I grew up in from the age of 6 or so with my dad. During my 1st year of college, there was a library in wonderful old Victorian house a block from where I lived that had nooks and crannies you could sit down in and read a book off the shelf. I used to go there to read, and didn't even bother to get a library card. It was the 1st time I read Pride and Prejudict - I'd sit in a window seat and continue from where I left off the last time I was there...
The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto, Canada, is an absolutely stunning place: a veritable cathedral to books. Open to the public, even though it's on the University of Toronto's downtown campus, and admission is free!
Do you use libraries? I’m a librarian, and I love visiting different libraries. You can learn so much about a town or a neighborhood by looking at the displays and special sections. For example, the branch I work at is in a neighborhood where a lot of visiting professors at the University of Texas at Austin live. They’re from all over the world. We have a huge world languages section while other branches have primarily just Spanish. Another branch I worked at has mostly young families in the neighborhood. We always had captivating displays of kids’ books. We very often create a QR code that we include in a display or flyer. It gives patrons a list of similar books or a Spotify list of songs related to the books on display. Sometimes small town libraries have fascinating history exhibits.
I don’t buy many books anymore. Working at the library, I have access to a world of books without spending money (which is good on a librarian’s salary). What are some of the libraries in the DMV that I should stop by when I come to visit your and Mr. Tony’s neck of the woods.
I also feel that way about libraries, and remember visiting the library in the very small town I grew up in from the age of 6 or so with my dad. During my 1st year of college, there was a library in wonderful old Victorian house a block from where I lived that had nooks and crannies you could sit down in and read a book off the shelf. I used to go there to read, and didn't even bother to get a library card. It was the 1st time I read Pride and Prejudict - I'd sit in a window seat and continue from where I left off the last time I was there...
The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in Toronto, Canada, is an absolutely stunning place: a veritable cathedral to books. Open to the public, even though it's on the University of Toronto's downtown campus, and admission is free!
https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/
Plus points for amazing Brutalism.