{"id":6270,"date":"2012-04-10T20:49:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T01:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=6270"},"modified":"2012-04-10T20:49:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T01:49:44","slug":"on-my-last-visit-to-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6270","title":{"rendered":"On My Last Visit to the Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

I grew up around books.<\/p>\n

My dad was a college librarian before he retired. Mainly special collections, but he was also a library director for a number of years as well.<\/p>\n

Suffice it to say, I was never not around books. I remember a summer, maybe when I was nine or ten, that I decided that I needed to arrange my books according to the Dewey Decimal System. I don’t remember how I was going to determine the Dewey Decimal numbers of cherished picture books, science books, Best of Trek<\/i> volumes, and many, many more, but when you’re nine or ten, this is the of project that intrigues a person — the sensibly impractical project.<\/p>\n

<\/a>You would think that after two and a half decades spent in an around libraries, from the time I was born until the time I left college, that libraries would be in my blood.<\/p>\n

You’d be wrong.<\/p>\n

I’m sure there were libraries in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, but I never knew where they were.<\/p>\n

There’s a branch of the Carroll County Public Library in Eldersburg that I drive past at least twice a month, but I’ve never stopped there.<\/p>\n

There’s a branch of the Baltimore County Public Library on Liberty Road in Randallstown. I’ve been there once, about two years ago, but I didn’t go there to look at books.<\/p>\n

There was a community meeting there because a developer wanted to build a development back the road that goes past my house. I went to the meeting. It was nothing significant. I’m not even sure if that development is still happening.<\/p>\n

There you have it. The last time I was at the library, and it wasn’t even to look at books.<\/p>\n

I really should rectify that…<\/p>\n

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