Comments on: Grateful for public libraries! (aka: first library card!)

By: Good morning, Non-Consumer Advocates! — ChildWild

Good morning, Non-Consumer Advocates! — ChildWild — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:23:05 +0000

[...] on Katy Wolk-Stanley’s wonderful blog, The Non-Consumer Advocate. It’s a reprint of my public library post, which regular readers here will probably [...]

By: Sierra

Sierra — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:32:57 +0000

Yes! That would be terrific. I’m so glad you liked it.

By: Katy Wolk-Stanley

Katy Wolk-Stanley — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:52:43 +0000

Sierra,

This is a lovely and moving piece. Would you let me reprint is as a “guest blog” on The Non-Consumer Advocate?

Katy Wolk-Stanley
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.”

By: Sierra

Sierra — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:18:16 +0000

@Kate – thanks for the comment. It’s great to hear about it from the librarian side.

By: Kate B

Kate B — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:24:10 +0000

I came over here from your Babble article, and I am so glad I did! This post is wonderful. Little Rio seems quite precocious.

I work in a public library, and I love being the one to issue first cards to little ones! Really, a library card is a powerful thing. Think of all the worlds that will open to her, the journeys those chapter books will take her on!

By: Erin

Erin — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:07:16 +0000

I cried reading this. I forget how much the library mattered, and matters to me. I do love our library’s adult stacks and I should visit more often. I will take Rio to the library any time.

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:26:40 +0000

Lovely. Just lovely. I look forward to the day my son can react to the library, and hope it will be with as much joy.

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:34:21 +0000

That’s just beautiful. Libraries are magical and powerful places.

By: Sarah T

Sarah T — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:31:24 +0000

One of the gleeful pursuits of my childhood involved my public library’s “summer reading program.” As far as I can recall, this program simply involved listing books you’d read in a special booklet made of colored paper. I think we got some prizes — maybe stickers in the book or something? — when we’d read a certain number, so it must have been aimed at getting kids who didn’t read to do so.

Of course, I was not one of those kids, but I still remember feeling incredibly accomplished when writing down the titles of hundreds of books over the course of three months, and deriving a lot of glee from the librarian’s show of being impressed.