I love libraries. They are places of learning filled with books. People go there to study and to read. Sometimes they go to help other people learn. When you borrow a book from a library, you read a book someone else read, maybe many other somebodies. Somebody else read that book and loved it or hated it and gave it back just as you will. It's like being part of a both really exclusive and very accepting club.
I love libraries.
I love them, but there are things that really bug me too. For example, in a series of five books why have book one and book five? Why do that. Why is there never a children's librarian on duty when I can bring my child? Why does my local library have a full time security guard? I get that some people are awful and do bad things, but a library doesn't seem like a big target for major crime. Having to pass a security guard is a little off putting.
Speaking of other people using libraries, who goes to a library drunk? (And why doesn't the security guard send them home?) Why do packs of people show up at the library and talk really loudly....there are meeting rooms for that. Why do people complain about library fines. It's a simple system, return the book or renew it so that others can read it.
Above all, why is it so hard to get the librarian out to teach my kids about library use. I've been trying on and off for 10 years and it has literally never worked. I'm starting to get really frustrated with this.
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