As with all the places I can no longer go/ things I can no longer do during lockdown, I have been thinking about libraries a lot lately. I have been thinking about how special they are and how they certainly need to be embraced and saved once this pandemic is over.
Libraries and reading made up such a huge part of my
childhood and even though the library in my hometown in no way looked like my
vision of a library or like the library in the image, it was still an amazing
place to be and a place I think fondly of when I reminisce.
In my head, libraries are places of adventure, wonder and
mystery. They look like the library in Beauty and the Beast or the Page Master
and have a friendly librarian (like the one from Matilda) who looks down at
you, spectacles perched on her nose, from her large desk and although seems
intimidating with all her shushing and library rules, she eventually becomes the
guide to your developing book tastes and introduces to you to all sorts of
incredible tales and genres.
One of my most favourite things as a child was that on a
Saturday, after my mum had finished her weekly shop and if I had behaved
myself, she would then take me up to the library in the town centre and I was
allowed to pick whatever books I wanted and was even trusted with getting the
maximum books out that I could- as I had proven that I could read them all in
time without any late fees! I would spend what felt like hours perusing the
children’s books, eagerly searching for the next book in a series or searching
for anything that might catch my eye. I can still remember looking forward to
this time so very much and how excited I would feel with a carrier bag full of
books banging against my legs as we made our way back to the car.
I even worked in a library for a little while when I was
young adult, and I used to love it when children would come up with their
little reading passports to stamp with the teddy bear stamp.
Libraries are important places and mean so much to so many
people, and I hope my children (if and when I have children in the future) are
able to create some amazing library memories themselves.
Do you have any library memories? I would love to hear them-
please comment below.
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