Bob on Praising Libraries
Bob Stepno reflects on libraries and librarians in light of Lauren Kessler’s In Praise of Libraries.
To get around the library’s rule supposedly preventing young children from having their own library card, Lauren learned how to write her name in cursive at the age of 4 to get her card.
"As a nonfiction writer, I use libraries hard. … I have spent many, many hours in the library and many, many months at my desk reading the books I brought home. …
… [F]or the real deal, the fully vetted information, the experts I can trust, for richness and depth, for portable wisdom I can read in bed at night or take with me on a trip, I go to books. I go to the library."
Today is the last day of this year’s National Library Week.
Addendum 4/17: Nice hit on this from the Public Library Association blog.
