Close…walking distance…one of the reasons we chose our forever home. Quiet if you you want it, active if you choose. Books, hard & soft, newspapers, magazines, videos, music cd’s, computers, meeting rooms small & large, nap areas for the wee ones, maps, an atlas stand, a globe, bulletin boards and display cases. Children’s sections, and Young Adults areas, then the rest of it…fiction and non, categorized and not, tables and chairs of all sorts, even couches, old and soft and worn, study carrels, staff work areas, a small rock garden. A powerful, affinity space, full of shared interests, uses and goals, open to both locals and visitors, owned legally by the city, but more so by the users. Used book store, staffed by seniors, Friends of the Library, a couple of quiet rooms, a large community room, where music is played, lectures are given, Ikebana and art are taught, medium sized meeting rooms, where creative writing and fly fishing and bird watching are discussed. Children, teens, adults of all ages, forty (or more) ethnicities, several local homeless men, respectful and grateful for the shelter from their individual storms, small bus loads of special needs individuals, some of whom still learning to be quieter in this sanctuary. And me.
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