“I’m not even from this branch,” a librarian tells me. “Send some of it our way!”<\/p>\n
“It” is of course $. The line was long at the branch I was taking out books from, which is why that visiting librarian was having to staff the service desk.<\/p>\n
Like everything that is life-affirming and allows people to self-actualize, public libraries are severely under-funded in the U.S., as I said to the librarian when she apologized for the wait.<\/p>\n
And yes, indeed, we do need to throw money at the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“I’m not even from this branch,” a librarian tells me. “Send some of it our way!” “It” is of course $. The line was long at the branch I was taking out books from, which is why that visiting librarian … Continue reading