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Originally Posted by pendragginp
 As a former librarian my heart warmed to read your post extolling libraries. Hear hear and huzzah!  |
Working as a librarian is practically volunteer community service, it involves more than the title entails and is not simply 're-shelving books' and I am fairly certain that is true all over. Maybe not but that is my impression. My favorite high school English teacher also used to be the Head Librarian of a county library system. He let me get away with so much, always empathetic even though I was obviously not the best student in his AP English course. I printed copies of the Anarchist Cookbook, four pages to a sheet as well as other radical zines. Things that wouldn't blow over nowadays. I could not have gotten through school without him. .
Maybe it has nothing to do with the job, and just with the sort of people such an occupation attracts. When I visited the closest branch to my home, located in a small shopping center, the elderly ladies working there recognized me even after leaving home and not visiting for a few years.
I don't know what to say. I can't help it. Thinking about libraries invokes an outpouring of love and appreciation! Librarians and libraries will always be somewhat mythical for me, like the Edificant Library in R.A Salvatore's books ;-]