Remembering What We Already Knew About the Library
Remember when we were in school and the dreaded works term paper or research paper were uttered in class? All we could envision was hour after laborious hour of digging through dusty card catalogs and even dustier books while trying to piece together several pages on a topic that wasn’t going to matter in six months anyway.
Okay, so maybe that was just my experience and yes, I remember the days when there was no computer catalog and everything had to be found by thumbing through actual cards that yielded more paper cuts than a scissor factory.
I recently found my library card and it had me remembering more recent experiences in my local library system that were far more positive. My ritual would include a weekly trip to the nearest library during which I would check out any combination of books, music and DVDs on such a wide variety of topics and genres that the librarians would never be quite sure how to size me up - and I liked it that way.
I visited the Jefferson County Public Library web site today and was surprised at the sheer number of events they have going on this month. I used to know that such things happened all the time but adult life had begun to shove me in other directions in recent months and I lost my youthful bliss for a while. While I may not need such things, it did impress me to learn that aside from the expected book club meetings there are classes on computers, budgeting, even crochet and knitting in my local library system.
Are you making use of your local library? The kids are about to go back to school if they haven’t already and you will probably have a little more free time on your hands, so what will be your excuse? Go forth and learn something and have a great time doing it.
Frugally yours,
August 13th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Thanks.