lifelinebooks: forgetfulfish: icycove:psi1998:stevviefox: peneigh-dzredfohl: Can everyone who reads
lifelinebooks: forgetfulfish: icycove:psi1998:stevviefox: peneigh-dzredfohl: Can everyone who reads this PLEASE reblog it?!?!? Libraries literally saved my life as a child!Being abused at home, bullied at school and lost in the world, the library and all the books I could escape to the most amazing worlds, kept me alive!I would walk to the library, and spend all day, from 10 am to 9 pm reading there!! I got special awards for how many books I read, I wrote little blurbs on why i loved the books (probably why I love to BETA and do ARCs) PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE Just hit the green arrows and the reblog!!!As a 50 year old woman, the library offers me so much. Digital art pads to borrow, 3D printing, book clubs that are face to face (yeah, the introvert likes face to face because a moderator will stomp on anyone getting snarky)New books in LARGE PRINT! I’m visually challenged and as much as I love my kindle, The feel of a real book in my hands will always be a beloved feeling!Our library also has quarterly books sales of almost free books!! For 5$USD we get in a day early and can buy as many as we want. Anyone else has to wait and there is a limit for the first 2 days. Also many, many libraries have inter library loan(it may be called something different). This means if they don’t have the item you want, they can get it for you. This may include photocopy/pdf of articles. This can also include along with books and DVDs, microfilm/fiche which is also a huge resource. Check around for libraries that are listed as depositories if you want to look at government documents. Remember that many colleges and universities have open stacks for the public. You will likely have to pay a membership fee but you will get to stuff. I love the library ☺ The library was one of my favorite places to go as a kid and I still live to go and just. Sit and read. Or do homework. The university I’m at has a massive 8-story one I love to just wonder around in~ Great places The library is such an amazing resource. As a kid we absolutely would not have been able to afford to buy the amount of books I read, and going to the library was the highlight of my week. I’m an adult now and I still use it regularly. The last time I was at the library was earlier today! I don’t know how it works in other countries but here in Ireland you can just order books online and they’ll bring it from any library on the country to your local library, it’s one giant interconnected system and it’s great! When I was a librarian, our system had a limit of 10 books per registered library user. We ignored it every single time. We had old ladies, eager young girls, one dude who was really into art, and countless families with young children checking out 20 or more books. Every single librarian who I worked with believed it was a crime to limit the number of books a user could check out. Plus why limit when these numbers were helping our stats?? -- source link