Our library closed today for five weeks. Normally that would be cause for alarm and/or despair. But this hiatus is good news for heavy library users such as myself. During the next 38 days, library staff will be moving to the new facility. It's five times bigger than the old library, with more shelves for books, more computers, more space, more meeting rooms.
I'll be at the grand opening Sept. 8, anxious to see this new place for books. I spent many hundreds of hours in the old library -- and paid enough late fees to pay for a brick or two. I attended the ground-breaking 18 months ago, and leafleted neighborhoods during the 2003-2004 campaign to get taxpayer approval.
It's a public library, after all, open to all of us. A democratic institution that welcomes us to check out books and fall asleep reading in comfy chairs. Probably more likely to find a homeless man rather than a CEO asleep in a library armchair, but you never know.
Can't wait until Sept. 8.
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