Public Library Blogging
Public Library Blogging
Now, for the non-insane post of the day. I grew up on a block with a public library. I’ve never been sure if I became an egghead because I spent so much time here or if I spent so much time here because I was an egghead.
Your modern-day chicken conundrum.
Over the years the library went from my free babysitter, to the place I could check e-mail when I came home from college, to the place I borrowed videos from when I was broke in law school.
Now, it’s where I blog!
I love watching people use computers in the library. The users run the gamut from high schoolers writing their college essays to old ladies making cards for the grandchildren. Yesterday, I sat next to an actor who started punching the monitor when he received an e-mail telling him he didn’t get a part (in the library other people’s screens are in the public domain.) He was escorted out by the library security guard after three blows…I’ve helped people write cover letters and showed an old man how to close out of word.
“X marks the spot!” He laughed and said he could remember that.
The library is fun, cool and free.
Uh oh…something tells me the egghead question is not as hazy as it once appeared.
December 19th, 2003 at 6:22 pm
Heeehheeee. I’m not a dork like you
and I used to love the library (now I have a lot of what the library offers at home). My mom would drop me off there at 3pm and come get me when it closed at 9 or so. Yes, free babysitting is a great thing.
December 19th, 2003 at 6:22 pm
Heeehheeee. I’m not a dork like you
and I used to love the library (now I have a lot of what the library offers at home). My mom would drop me off there at 3pm and come get me when it closed at 9 or so. Yes, free babysitting is a great thing.
December 19th, 2003 at 6:22 pm
Heeehheeee. I’m not a dork like you
and I used to love the library (now I have a lot of what the library offers at home). My mom would drop me off there at 3pm and come get me when it closed at 9 or so. Yes, free babysitting is a great thing.
December 19th, 2003 at 7:06 pm
Despite having more than everything my library had (long, long time ago), I still miss the atmosphere of a public library… Books and magazines have a certain smell - but it’s more than a smell - almost like the information, the knowledge - wafts around on the air.
It’s a heady perfume, my fellow geeks/dorks/eggheads/whatever!!
December 19th, 2003 at 7:06 pm
Despite having more than everything my library had (long, long time ago), I still miss the atmosphere of a public library… Books and magazines have a certain smell - but it’s more than a smell - almost like the information, the knowledge - wafts around on the air.
It’s a heady perfume, my fellow geeks/dorks/eggheads/whatever!!
December 19th, 2003 at 7:06 pm
Despite having more than everything my library had (long, long time ago), I still miss the atmosphere of a public library… Books and magazines have a certain smell - but it’s more than a smell - almost like the information, the knowledge - wafts around on the air.
It’s a heady perfume, my fellow geeks/dorks/eggheads/whatever!!
December 20th, 2003 at 12:46 pm
Charles 2 describes it well. When I go back to my hometown, a visit to the old library is at the top of my list. It feels great.
December 20th, 2003 at 12:46 pm
Charles 2 describes it well. When I go back to my hometown, a visit to the old library is at the top of my list. It feels great.
December 20th, 2003 at 12:46 pm
Charles 2 describes it well. When I go back to my hometown, a visit to the old library is at the top of my list. It feels great.
December 21st, 2003 at 4:02 am
I work a block away from the main branch of the NYPL Research Library and the mid-manhattan. This summer I read three books on Pascal during lunch hours in an attempt to completely escape the office. I discovered that you can actually do some browsing in the main reading room on the sides, they have a great philosophy section. If you have a laptop, connecting is easy. Now I have started doing some browsing in the periodical stacks at mid-manhattan which has much more of a community feel being a branch library. Educating yourself is hard, but an addiction (hopefully) that is unapologetically enriching.
December 21st, 2003 at 4:02 am
I work a block away from the main branch of the NYPL Research Library and the mid-manhattan. This summer I read three books on Pascal during lunch hours in an attempt to completely escape the office. I discovered that you can actually do some browsing in the main reading room on the sides, they have a great philosophy section. If you have a laptop, connecting is easy. Now I have started doing some browsing in the periodical stacks at mid-manhattan which has much more of a community feel being a branch library. Educating yourself is hard, but an addiction (hopefully) that is unapologetically enriching.
December 21st, 2003 at 4:02 am
I work a block away from the main branch of the NYPL Research Library and the mid-manhattan. This summer I read three books on Pascal during lunch hours in an attempt to completely escape the office. I discovered that you can actually do some browsing in the main reading room on the sides, they have a great philosophy section. If you have a laptop, connecting is easy. Now I have started doing some browsing in the periodical stacks at mid-manhattan which has much more of a community feel being a branch library. Educating yourself is hard, but an addiction (hopefully) that is unapologetically enriching.