America's librarians are among my heroes, especially in the face of this kind of lunacy. They not only provide us with things we can read and see for entertainment, they are also quiet protectors of the accumulated knowledge of our civilization. Support your local public library.
America's librarians are among my heroes, especially in the face of this kind of lunacy. They not only provide us with things we can read and see for entertainment, they are also quiet protectors of the accumulated knowledge of our civilization. Support your local public library.
@RadioFreeTom I love libraries. I love books especially the historical kind. But what is the mission of a library in an age when books are much more affordable and so many can be had with a few clicks. Are libraries the NPR of books. A small liberal elite (not the poor) who want them?
@RadioFreeTom Know what you mean. Just the other day a librarian carried me out of a burning building. Then, she thwarted a car jacking, delivered a baby on a metro car, and performed open heart surgery on the counter of a Denny's. They truly are the real heroes.
@RadioFreeTom My parents were both librarians & educators. My mother ran small suburban MA branch libraries where she made creative dioramas & displays to “advertise” children’s books, & painted the children’s room into gardens herself (she was an amazing artist.) She ran bookmobiles, 1/
@RadioFreeTom Have you ever been to a library
@RadioFreeTom Narrator: they're not.
@RadioFreeTom A public library is about as useful nowadays as a public stable for the 🐎 you ride to work. No one is being groomed because no one is using them.
@RadioFreeTom Mostly agree, but the librarian culture has been transmogrifying in recent years as a last resort for credentialed creatives...
@RadioFreeTom When I was a young kid, my dad would drive me to the library every 2 weeks to get my 5 books while he waited patiently in the car. The librarians grew to know my reading tastes and by 7th grade suggested I read Daphne DuMaurier and also Gone With the Wind. What treats those were!
@RadioFreeTom My mother took me for my first library card as a first grader. The library in the Municipal Building was 2 streets away. All summer I went in the morning, checked out books, returned them in the afternoon for more. Many fond memories of librarians& later reference librarians!
@RadioFreeTom Not for nothing, but this white guy enjoyed and remembers The Roberto Clemente Story. One of very few things i remember from 5th grade.