Duvall Bookstore 1 by Tommia Wright
Thanks go to Robin Coyle for her post this last weekend. I read it yet shook my head in disbelief thinking, no – a public library couldn’t possibly be reduced to that!
Then I read this article: Bookless Library. Really? What’s next – bakeries without sweets? Coffee shops without coffee?
I know (and sadly accept aspects of the facts) that we’re becoming a digital world, disconnected from discourse, decency and delighting in life’s simple details. Can someone explain how this can be a library?
This is a library:
Designed like a stack of books, the Seattle Public Library is a treasure filled with everything including digital items. Easy to spend an entire day there.
This is a library:
Dallas Public Library by Tommia Wright
Dallas dedicates a floor to history (the seventh floor) and mystery (an entire floor for children) and a place for audiophiles to listen to music in almost any medium.
This is a library:
Granted, it’s in Rome, but any large library in a major city is worth a visit, lost in the lines of literature and more.
Stephen King said it well: “Books have weight and texture; they make a pleasant pressure in the hand. Nothing smells as good as a new book, especially if you get your nose right down in the binding, where you can still catch an acrid tang of the glue. The only thing close is the peppery smell of an old one. The odor of an old book is the odor of history, and for me, the look of a new one is still the look of the future.” (On Writing)
(Sigh). Maybe the bookless library will work where it is in Texas. I, for one, am glad the library system I use is not going at that speed of light.
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