> > It just kills me when people come in and they have to research a topic, but they have no idea how to use the card catalog to look it up because they never come to the library unless they have to. I can't imagine that. Did you ever read "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler", where some kids run away to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art? I think if I could, I'd run away to the library.
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> > Ali"Sorry, this was pretty random"son
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> It's been years since I even thought of that book, but I know I loved it. Maybe I should make use of the library and go read it again.
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> Ell"What, no BAM of this book?!"myruh

Amen. That was my *favorite* book when I was little.

Incidentally, the local library is right across the street from the high school I went to, so I would go there often after school to hang about. My mother would always ask me if I was *sure* I wanted to go, since it really was no trouble to pick me up earlier... I don't think I've managed to convince her yet that I actually like going to the library when I don't have to, sitting quietly and reading a book - after all, she used to send me to my room to be quiet as a punishment! (No, no, anything but that! Well, if I must... ::grin::)

-Fob"would still like to run away to the library, too"ulis