I am glad that it is library week! What a great thing to have a "week" for!
Long live librarys and the folks that populate them (librarians)!
It was my local library (and librarian) that offered me an opportunity to access books and ideas that I otherwise could never have been exposed to or imagined...I spent many a day riding my bike (really) back and forth to the library...it was my own special sanctuary. With 4 brothers and not much money growing up on a farm, our local lending library (established with a Carnegie Grant...he was one of the first philanthropic robber barrons of early industrial USA who gave some of his money to small towns across the US to establish libraries to help people "improve" themselves)...it was a tremendous gift and asset to our community and I often felt ole Dale Carnegie gave it to me personally when I was a kid...
Not to be too goofy about this but, it did change my life...any subject in the world was at my finger tips...I read whole sections of the place and the librarian would special order in new books from the big "county" library just for me...
Wow...Happy Library Week