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Originally Posted by olderTechnology
Re: the last two comments, you really lowered the level of discourse here.
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In my opinion, this is what lowered the level of discourse, not the prior comments. It is possible to disagree with somebody in a much friendlier manner than that -- not everybody knows the inner workings of their library, even if they use it frequently.
Back to the original topic -- while I didn't grow up in England, I also found the library to be instrumental in my upbringing. My parents are not readers and actually objected to how much I used to read, so without libraries I would have been without and I used to read about a wide variety of topics that were not taught in the normal course of the school day -- geology, astronomy, paleontology, etc, as well as devouring most of the sci-fi books that they had too.