Monday, November 7, 2011

What A Library Is

A place for coffee and pastries, for pizza nights, dance parties, and flash mobs.

A free DVD rental service, an iTunes listening station, an e-mail portal.

A commons for all kinds of social traffic.

A student union building.

A club where people get together, and a place where they break-up.

A place to study, when all the quiet of your room is making it hard to concentrate.

Where you get your photocopies, and the latest gossip.

Where they hold your hand until you figure out that all roads do not lead to JSTOR.

Where, after first exploring the more reliable resources of the local Barnes and Noble or Borders, you finally go, as a last resort, to get some books.

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