(Above is a picture of the Trinity Oxford Library. If you would like to find out how my love affair with libraries began, click here here
If you would like to see some book suggestions made by made by me, click here here
If you would like to see what I normally do in a library on a regular school week, click here here
If you would like to see some pictures of gorgeous libraries around the world, click here here
If you would like to hear about my concerns about disappearing libraries, click here here
Now, I am not saying that I am a library connoisseur. In my lifetime I have probably visited at most 12 libraries- 7 of which were school libraries. But these libraries, scattered across the world, have made such an impression on me that I have come to view them as entities beyond just spaces filled with books. They are ubiquitous sanctuaries that are separate from the outside world. Even a school library, filled with students, and oh so near the classrooms, is a world apart from the school itself and provides respite from the daily tedium of school. Whenever I go to a new place, I try to find out if there is a public library I can go to. Unfortunately, where I live currently doesn’t have a public library (at least one that I can confidently go into and understand what is going on). Thank goodness I can still find volumes upon volumes of unread novels in my current school library, or my humble family library.