I just read earlier on Esther's Classic Literature Blog, maintained by About.com and written by Esther Lombardi, that February is Library Lovers' Month. This is my first time hearing that. I've never associated my birth month with libraries. Although, I can faintly remember spending a few birthdays with books, some days even spent on a library. But that was all when I was still a little child, or a budding teen.
We all know what a library is, right? Basically, it's where we keep books. We go to libraries to read certain books: some to research technical topics while others to entertain themselves. Nowadays, the modern teen would rather go online than spend one whole day in the library. That's all well and good but we need to brush up on ancient knowledge to get by in an intellectual world.
John Bright once said, "What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fullness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us."
Now that I've come upon this nostalgic realization, I'll probably hit our library at school. Our local library offers little, as far as I can remember, but it's been a long time since I visited that place. If we can spend one whole day playing virtual games, why not spend even just a few hours in the library?
We all know what a library is, right? Basically, it's where we keep books. We go to libraries to read certain books: some to research technical topics while others to entertain themselves. Nowadays, the modern teen would rather go online than spend one whole day in the library. That's all well and good but we need to brush up on ancient knowledge to get by in an intellectual world.
John Bright once said, "What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fullness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us."
Now that I've come upon this nostalgic realization, I'll probably hit our library at school. Our local library offers little, as far as I can remember, but it's been a long time since I visited that place. If we can spend one whole day playing virtual games, why not spend even just a few hours in the library?
† Jofer
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