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Wrap Up for Weekly Geeks 2010-12 - Checking out Libraries

14 People were more organised than me this week* and actually managed to post a response to these questions which were posted by Terri in readiness for National Library Week in the US (April 11-17)


What's your earliest memory of a library? What was it like for you? Were you more likely to hang out in the gym or the library when you were in school?

How's the health of the library system in your community? How do you support your local library? How often do you check out books from the library vs. buying books? Tell us what your favorite library is like and include some photos if you can.

  • When he was a kid Darren from Bart's Bookshelf used to escape to the children's section of his library while his mum fed her Mills & Boon addiction. These days Darren finds the library a bit too full of hard edges and harsh lighting (I must say the picture he posted of his local library building's exterior is not terribly inviting, why do we never seem as much on libraries as we do on sports stadiums?).
  • Suey from It's All About Books made me laugh with her post saying that even though she had a perfectly good library in her city when she was little what she remembers is going to her Grandma's house and thinking the visiting bookmobile was the coolest thing ever. I would have thought books that come to you were cool too when I was a kid (heck I would think it was cool now). Maybe Suey should read Ian Sansom's The Case of the Missing Books which is all about chap who is appointed the new librarian for a small town in Ireland but first he has to learn to drive the library and then he has to find all the books that locals have ...borrowed.
  • Zee at Notes from the North just made me jealous with her beautiful picture of her high school library. Go on go take a look - you'll be jealous too.
  • I'm a bit worried about Chris from Book-a-rama - she seems to have gotten her library confused with a local confectionery store and is planning on eating the books ;)
  • And finally Freddie from Freddie reads talks about the routine she used to indulge in when little, and which she has passed on to her kids, when you visit the library you stop and inhale the library smell. A fine tradition indeed.

These are just a few of the great posts that you can find linked to from this week's post. When you've finished checking them all out get ready for a brand new Weekly Geeks question tomorrow

*Actually I'm sure there were many more people more organised than me this week but only 14 bragged about it ;)

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Wrap Up for Weekly Geeks 2010-12 - Checking out Libraries + WG round-up