I heart my local library

Despite spending most of my recent “off” hours digging up sod, laying in a new perennial border, and planting my vegetable and herb garden, I have managed to read several books in the last couple weeks, all of which I hope to review here soon.  For now, I just wanted to state for the record how much I love living 2 blocks from an award-winning library!  The Way Public Library recently was ranked #6 nationwide in its class, and I say, congratulations to all of its patrons!  It’s rare when they don’t have what I’m looking for, and the convenience of logging in from home, putting books on reserve for myself, and walking down to pick them up is making it very hard to be “reasonable” about my TBR stack.  I just returned Nadine Gordimer’s Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories and James Shapiro’s A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, am currently reading Rivka Galchen’s Atmospheric Disturbances, and just got an email notice that the copy I reserved of Emily St. John Mandel’s The Singer’s Gun is ready for me to pick up!  I am definitely a multiple-book-source girl (a copy of Laura Lippman’s What the Dead Know arrived via BookMooch yesterday), but I see the balance tilting in favor of the library, now that I live just down the street.

How much do you use your local library?  How does that compare to your other book sources?  And what makes your local library unique?

27. May 2010 by Mindy
Categories: Resources, Your turn | 3 comments

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