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Sheril Kirshenbaum
No matter how old I get, libraries continue to be the most magical places.
Dec 1, 2022 at 11:04pmMetatext
Show threadWiredfire Dec 1, 2022
@Sheril I love libraries & print books.. but I definitely find I *actually* a LOT more on my eBook reader.
I ended up migrating most of my books to digital & I'm enjoying reading again. I've used my library for a few digital loans, that's kinda cool.
But regardless of that I absolutely maintain that plentiful local, physical, libraries are essential, even though I'm part of the problem 😅
Show thread7sleepersmusicDec 1, 2022
@Sheril Wish I could live there! 📖 🎶 🎞️ 👍 😁
Show threadScatalogicAIDec 1, 2022
@Sheril
They were my favorite places as a kid. Still up there for me as an adult.
Show threadAllenDec 1, 2022

@Sheril

When selecting a new home 10 years ago, I bought the home across the street from our local library.

Show threadAlceaDec 1, 2022

@Sheril

And peaceful.
+1 together with empty #churches

Show threadRob BentlyewskiDec 1, 2022
@Sheril sharing this screenshot from the Instagram of the beautiful #ProvidenceAtheneum
Show threadWendyDec 2, 2022
@rbently @Sheril I LOVE that Atheneum! My very favorite one. Thank you for the memory.
Show threadDigital Detox PhotographyDec 1, 2022
@Sheril true Coimbra Library is my all-time favorite and blew me away
Show threadSabaah Z Jauhar-RizviDec 2, 2022
@Sheril the smell of a library is amazing
Show threadDiefledermaus82Dec 2, 2022
@Sheril And my ancedotsl evidence is that the folks who work in #Libraries are the most supportive, encouraging people you will find anywhere. 10/10 recommend visiting your local Library!
Show threadKitty (she/her)Dec 2, 2022

@diefledermaus82 @Sheril I know a lot of the people who work at my local library and I think you're right!

My fianceé is a librarian, so I have an advantage there. 😄

Show threadPatty Bluebird 🦩Dec 2, 2022

@Sheril I worked as a children's librarian for three years. It was the best job in the world: I was surrounded by books and children and teens.

I go to the library at least once a week.

#LoveMyLibrary
#AlwaysReading
#Bookworm

Show threadTransitBikerDec 2, 2022
@Sheril My girlfriend is a librarian. Can confirm she is actually a magician.
Show threadHANSOLODec 2, 2022
@Sheril libraries are the heart and soul of democracies and gives the poor and disenfrenchised access to education without censorship. We must keep and expand them for the public.
Show thread7sleepersmusicDec 2, 2022
@Sheril @Hansolo Jacob Bronowski agrees! 📖👍😁
Show threadChristine KrauseDec 2, 2022
@Sheril libraries forever!!
Show threadSudhirDec 2, 2022
@Sheril True! Absolute pleasure.👍👏❤️🙏
Show threadDerek 🌈Dec 2, 2022
@Sheril There is a Library back in #Humboldt, I love it there. They have what they call the #HumboldtRoom and its #fantastic. Here is the URL: https://humboldtgov.org/399/Humboldt-Room
Humboldt Room | Humboldt County, CA - Official Website

Explore what resources are available in the Humboldt Room.

Show threadJulia AdultDec 2, 2022
@Sheril I know. I work at one
Show threadDanAyalaDec 2, 2022
@Sheril Correct ¡!
Show threadLeaperLarkDec 2, 2022
@Sheril when I feel down, I go to the library. Works like magic every time!
Show threadRichardOntarioDec 2, 2022
@Sheril Still got the hots for Dewey Decimal huh He had that effect on a lot of generations
Show threadBasedPickleDec 2, 2022
@Sheril I prefer the bathroom personally
Show threaddoomcruiserDec 2, 2022
@Sheril truth! a day at the library is a day well spent 😎
Show threadStefanieDec 2, 2022
@Sheril I was just at mine a couple of hours ago!
Show threadCharlzDec 2, 2022
@Sheril
So true. I check out all the books I read and contribute to my local library foundation.
Show threadTom NewsomDec 2, 2022
@Sheril Same! Three places I can spend hours: Library, book store, record store.
Show threadCall Me Ishmael 📚Dec 2, 2022
@Sheril me and my daughter go once a week and we love every minute of it
Show threadTom 🎃Dec 2, 2022
@Sheril I’m a librarian, thank you for your kind words.
Show threadShriniDec 2, 2022
@Sheril The public library system in the US is really great. I loved the ones in the Chicago suburbs. They are like ecosystems where people can do a range of activities across age groups. Unfortunately we don’t have any equivalent in India that I am aware of.
Show threadHazard2VelaneDec 2, 2022
@Sheril Yes, no matter how old or how much money you have, going to the library to explore the shelves and open a new world is the best thing in the world.
Show threadUnicycle SamDec 2, 2022
@Sheril my reading habit would be so expensive without them.
Show threadJamesBeeDoreyDec 2, 2022
@Sheril a poor photo of the lovely Mortlock wing in the South Australian State Library! A great place to study!
Show threadDJP (Darren John Pope)Dec 2, 2022
@Sheril ... same - a world of possibility
Show threadSpiraDec 2, 2022
@Sheril I feel like the only magical library I’ve visited in my country was in Tel Aviv. That one was truly emanating another dimension vibe. My town library is kinda…meh.
Show threadPayal B. Joshi, PhDDec 2, 2022
@Sheril precisely put! I cannot imagine a day without thinking time and reading!
Show threadgmokeDec 2, 2022
@Sheril Every day is Christmas at the library
Show threadhallvorsDec 2, 2022
@Sheril This summer I went to Yusuhara public library. Wow.. <3
Show threadCurious LurkerDec 2, 2022
@Sheril True story
Show threadlisa cDec 2, 2022
@Sheril I had a conversation with someone just today about how much I love the library and as an adult how many people I know who never really used them growing up and don't use them now. Libraries are amazing resources for so many things.
Show threadTim RichardsDec 2, 2022
@Sheril @ShaulaEvans The more magical the older I get! Great community hubs in addition to being a good place to write.
Show threadSaving Nature ⛵ 🌎 ☕🇺🇸Dec 2, 2022
@Sheril Nothing better than a library!!! Just something about that experience!
Show threadHelenDec 2, 2022
@Sheril I love a library, they're pregnant with possibility.
Show threadbrett g porterDec 2, 2022
@Sheril My daughter just started teaching high school. Today they are doing a field trip to the Newark library, and she told me that many of her students have never set foot in a library before.
Show threadLise AndreasenDec 2, 2022
@Sheril https://youtu.be/MDi5JtS1H-g
OSCON 2011: Piers Cawley, "Child of the Library"

YouTube
Show threadJeremy 🅰️ Williams Dec 2, 2022
@Sheril yes. Libraries and bookstores. I loved reading as a kid and basically stopped reading for pleasure for about 15 years during and after college. Starting reading again has been such a great choice and now I have to seek out a bookstore or library anytime I’m in a new city. 📚 🧡
Show threadDaisy Doo & TuxieGirl BettyDec 2, 2022
@Sheril My mom, #CatEyeJayne loves the library too.
Show threadMarie 🍰Dec 2, 2022
@Sheril
Oooh good idea. I live a two minute walk from our local library.
I'm going to go there today!
Show threadTom ParishDec 2, 2022
@Sheril I feel the same way. The calmness, the smell, the politeness of the librarians who are there for the purpose of being helpful. And most of all the promise of discovering a book or maybe a magazine I never knew about. I consider the experience to be a kind of bliss.
Show threadsparker 🥑Dec 2, 2022
@Sheril Agree. I was raised in one. My Dad was a reference librarian who took me with him to work. I would sit in a big comfy chair surrounded by piles of books and slowly work my way through them. 📚📚
Show threadCharNewcombDec 2, 2022
@Sheril can't agree more! Spent 24 years working in this one
#kstate #Hale
Show threadoptiMSTieDec 3, 2022

@Sheril So heartily agreed.

There was a wonder to them when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, and that hasn't abated since.

Show threadStone Bear Dec 3, 2022

@Sheril there are even *songs* about libraries. This one's somewhat mainstream:

Jimmy Buffett, "Love in the Library"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIoImwmEMhY

Jimmy Buffett - Love in the Library - Directed by Delaney

YouTube
Show threadStone Bear Dec 3, 2022

@Sheril this one is less well known: SJ Tucker, Ravens in the Library https://sjtucker.bandcamp.com/track/ravens-in-the-library

It's a fantasy riff on the Ravens Brings Light to this House of Stories exhibit at the Allen Library at the University of Washington:

Ravens in the Library, by S. J. Tucker

from the album Mischief

S. J. Tucker
Show threadjm_rivesDec 4, 2022
@Sheril TRUTH!
Show threadBrisa (she/her)Dec 4, 2022
@Sheril I recently went back to the library where I hung out as a child and it was the absolute most magical experience I've had in ages!
Show threadStephanennyDec 4, 2022
@Sheril Once every month or two I learn something new about my about my local library and it is never a bad thing