Here’s to librarians. I’ve been thinking about them this week because of the piece I just did on the American Library Association’s Rainbow List, but librarians and borrowing also fit nicely with the theme for the third day of the Some/Thing blog carnival at The Other Mother: “Something Borrowed.”
I’ve spent more hours than I can count holed up in libraries. Graduate study in the humanities will do that to you, although I think my habit started far earlier. I am now enjoying the very different experience of going to the library with my son. If you are like me, too, you are curbing your book spending in this down economy, and libraries are the natural substitute (although there’s still something about owning a good book that I know I can pick up at will). It also looks like libraries may get some funds through the new economic stimulus package.
Whether it is compiling lists of recommended books, tracking books that others want to ban, or simply helping me find a book that explains to a five-year-old how crystals form, librarians have my frequent admiration and thanks.
