This post is dedicated to all the libraries that have been there for me. Be it, a small room with an old man keeping track of old books in Madurai, the Murugan Lending Library of Adyar, Madras fame, the umpteen school libraries, BITS, TAMU, and now the Cottage Grove Public Library.
#1. Have you ever got lost in a library, bewildered at the assortment of books around?
#2. Have you ever picked a book, totally on an impulse, and ended up not reading it too?
#3. Have you ever experienced the excitement of a child when you come across a book you have been wanting to read all along?
#4. Have you ever wondered as to how life would be without libraries?
#5. Have you ever thought as to which option would be better - selfishly owning a few books, or, having a book be embraced and experienced by many more readers, courtesy a library?
6 comments:
thats interesting, i remember when i was doing a journalism course in chennai, i and one of my friends had to do an investigative projects on libraries. it was really interesting...though we could not cover all the libraries as we were short of time. but all the questions u asked were the questions which we asked at that point to the library authorities.
amrita: thanks for your comments. journalism must indeed be work loaded with fun. :)
as for the answers, guess each one of us would have our very own special ones. :)
miss libraries... miss walking thru aisles stacked tall with books... and that smell of pages turned over so many times that the paper has gone soft.. miss searching for ages to find that one book, then finding it, and then realizing you've forgotten ur membership card... miss libraries so much!
chikuado: libraries, so intricately woven into our web of life.
Abosolutely......your five points hold good when one enters a library......cannot imagine a world without books.
priyanka: good to know that there are so many passionate library lovers in this world. :)
and you should continue blogging. I see that there are no posts for a long time.
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