Just What Do You DO in the Library?
I remember the first time I walked into a real, honest-to-goodness library. My elementary schools at that time really only had small rooms (basically closets) with books that our teachers could check out for us - and one room that was a little bit bigger that had someone sitting at a school desk where we could sign the check-out cards with our name and room number. But I can still picture the scene in front of me when I walked into that public library for the first time. I was seven or eight. We had just moved to a new state, and for the first time had access to a really good public library system. We walked through those doors and I was absolutely in heaven. The shelves full of colorful books and people browsing through them. The activity at the circulation desk. But it was the smell that was vivid to me - partly the mustiness of some of the books - but also the glue that held the card pockets in the books and the clear cellophane-like dust jacket protectors. I thought