My first memory of a library was my elementary school. Learning the dewey
decimal system and how to naviaget the card catalog was the right of passage
for any first grader. I also remember learning how to read. As if night and day
came together, I woke up one morning and the letters on the page of a book
also came together to form a word. A new door opened in my life and has
never shut.
My mother often says to me that she does not know where I learned to write.
She stated to me recently that I do not give myself enough credit for my
thoughts and words. She only needs to look in the mirror to see where I learned
to write. No, she did not sit down with me on a daily basis and drill me on the
parts of speech and how to …show more content…
I remember
that we had this really large dictionary and when I learned to read I was so
excited to see my name on one of the first pages. Today I imagine that I must
have had the same reaction Steve Martin did when he found his name in the
white pages. I was somebody because my name was in the dictionary.
We also had encylopedias (hey folks these was the old days before the world
wide web of misinformation), but one set of encyllopedias we had were
MEDICAL At a very young age, I learned everything about human anatomy,
diseases and where babies come from. No, not the birds and bees. Literally
where the baby comes from with photos and everything. I guess that is why I
become so irritated when someone says they were kicked in the vagina.
Really??? So her foot impailed itself into your vagina?? LEARN YOUR
BODY LADIES! Okay I digress.
We also had the complete 40-volume set called "The Yale Shakespeare". I
know I had my face in those little blue books. What I would give to have that
full set of books again. Actually I found them on eBay and I am watching an
auction. If the price doesn 't become astronomical, I will bid on them. I wish …show more content…
Between the ages of 10 and 13, I was
either at the skating rink or I was roaming the stacks of the library. When I
went away to boarding school at 13, I found solace in the books of the library.
I remember when the library moved from under the Eurthym room to the "new
library". The librarian chose me to be her assisstant and help organize the
library shelves. I rememver the day we formed a chain of students to move the
books across the oval. When I visited my old school recently I still call that
buidling the "new library", it was built over thirty years ago.
Here are some photos of two libraries that I recently visited. One is in Vienna
(Wien), Austria and the other is in downtown Nashville.
This is a few photos I took this past May in the State Hall of the Austrian
National Library.
Here are some photos I took today at the Nashville Public Library. I was
attending Shakespeare Allowed presented by the Nashille Shakespeare
Festival. The first Saturday of each month people gather to read a play by the
great bard William Shakespeare. Everyone gathers around the table and
decimal system and how to naviaget the card catalog was the right of passage
for any first grader. I also remember learning how to read. As if night and day
came together, I woke up one morning and the letters on the page of a book
also came together to form a word. A new door opened in my life and has
never shut.
My mother often says to me that she does not know where I learned to write.
She stated to me recently that I do not give myself enough credit for my
thoughts and words. She only needs to look in the mirror to see where I learned
to write. No, she did not sit down with me on a daily basis and drill me on the
parts of speech and how to …show more content…
I remember
that we had this really large dictionary and when I learned to read I was so
excited to see my name on one of the first pages. Today I imagine that I must
have had the same reaction Steve Martin did when he found his name in the
white pages. I was somebody because my name was in the dictionary.
We also had encylopedias (hey folks these was the old days before the world
wide web of misinformation), but one set of encyllopedias we had were
MEDICAL At a very young age, I learned everything about human anatomy,
diseases and where babies come from. No, not the birds and bees. Literally
where the baby comes from with photos and everything. I guess that is why I
become so irritated when someone says they were kicked in the vagina.
Really??? So her foot impailed itself into your vagina?? LEARN YOUR
BODY LADIES! Okay I digress.
We also had the complete 40-volume set called "The Yale Shakespeare". I
know I had my face in those little blue books. What I would give to have that
full set of books again. Actually I found them on eBay and I am watching an
auction. If the price doesn 't become astronomical, I will bid on them. I wish …show more content…
Between the ages of 10 and 13, I was
either at the skating rink or I was roaming the stacks of the library. When I
went away to boarding school at 13, I found solace in the books of the library.
I remember when the library moved from under the Eurthym room to the "new
library". The librarian chose me to be her assisstant and help organize the
library shelves. I rememver the day we formed a chain of students to move the
books across the oval. When I visited my old school recently I still call that
buidling the "new library", it was built over thirty years ago.
Here are some photos of two libraries that I recently visited. One is in Vienna
(Wien), Austria and the other is in downtown Nashville.
This is a few photos I took this past May in the State Hall of the Austrian
National Library.
Here are some photos I took today at the Nashville Public Library. I was
attending Shakespeare Allowed presented by the Nashille Shakespeare
Festival. The first Saturday of each month people gather to read a play by the
great bard William Shakespeare. Everyone gathers around the table and