Green Journal: Visit Your Local Library
October 22, 2007
Posted by CindyC in : Green Journal , add a comment
Our local library is one of my daughter’s favorite places to visit. We go about twice a month and she loves to recycle (e.g. return) books, find new ones and check them out all by herself. And of course we encourage that. But as she was checking out her finds this week, she turned around and asked “How come you don’t recycle books, Mom?” Well, she caught me. While I was busy trying to teach her good habits, I forgot to apply them to myself.
I’ve always been a bit of a book treasurer. You will never find a dog-eared page, food stains or bent covers on my book shelf – unless they belong to my husband. I even used to highlight my textbooks with a ruler so the pages remain neat. Not sure why but just is; so I guess reading well-worn books from the library never really appealed.
However, in the interest of “do as I preach”, I decided to control my little idiosyncrasy and peruse the grown-up selection at the library. I was pleasantly surprised by the available options and services offered. There were plenty of new releases in both hardbacks and paperbacks, in all different gendres. Current issues of a wide selection of magazines were available for on-site reading and of course, you can check out previous months issues. Online catalogs, inter-library transfers and a reservation system for popular titles, CDs and DVDs make it easy to find just about anything. There’s even an advance reservation for soon-to-be available titles, which appeals to impatient reader in me. Rather than buying it, I decided to look for my Green Book Club’s current selection, One Man, One Woman and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally. It was checked out, probably by another Club member, but I was able to reserve it (for 75 cents) and receive notification when the book comes back. Since I have plenty of time before our next meeting, the wait was not an issue. Not only did I save $17 by using the library, I can now share the library experience with my daughter.
CindyC at Organicpicks
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