Where in the World Are You Reading? My Local Library (Part 1)
>> Monday, August 20, 2012
Where in the World Are You Reading is a monthly themed Meme jointly hosted by Trish at Love, Laughter and a Touch of Insanity, Lisa at Books. Lists. Life. and Kailana at The Written World.
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The theme for August is Your Local Library which means I'll be doing two posts for this month because I have two libraries that are a big part of my reading life.
I'm lucky enough to routinely use two outstanding county library systems. I live in one county and work in another. Both have branches that are conveniently located on my way home from work so I have easy access to excellence in libraries.
This is definitely the library I visit the most. It's on my way home from the Park & Ride lot I use on the three days a week I work downtown. It's an easy right turn in, right turn out on the way home.
No matter what time or day I stop in there are folks browsing, reading, using the computers or checking out the Friends of the Library resale shop next door.
In many places around the library there are recommendation lists of all kinds. These are by the New Books shelf but there are many on the ends of the shelf rows throughout the library.
This section is near and dear to my heart. It's the pickup area for holds. I make extensive use of the online catalog and request books, DVDs and Books on DC all the time. There is a family whose name is alphabetically right before mine and I have never picked up one of my holds without seeing several of their holds on the shelf too. I've never met them but I feel like I know them through our "holds shelf neighborhood".
I love this library and do consider it to be my home library.
Come back next week when I'll be featuring the Central Branch of the Multnomah County Library which is a completely different atmosphere.
No stars – I couldn’t even finish it
1 star – I didn’t like it but I managed to finish it.
2 stars – It was OK. Not good, but seriously just OK.
3 stars - I liked it. I didn’t think it was great, but I thought it was good entertainment.
4 stars – I really liked it. I really think you might like it too.
5 stars – It was amazing. I’d recommend this to just about anyone.
6 comments:
My old library had those checkout stations and I LOVED them. My new one doesn't, but there is never a line anyway. The old one had the same hold system and I loved looking at what other people were requesting. The new place has one tiny cart behind the counter. It is 3 shelves tall, but holds are never more than the top shelf, which is maybe 2 feet wide! Crazy.
My library doesn't have self-checkouts, but I suppose I don't really need them at my library. It is kind of quiet!
I had no idea Oregon was an all vote by mail state. That's fascinating. I remember visiting friends in Portland and being so surprised that they pump your gas for you at all of the gas stations.
Lisa: Oh I'd miss both the self checkout and the spying on other people's holds. I'm glad my library has both.
Kailana: Before the self-checkouts there really wasn't a long line very often but I really like them now.
Melissa: Yup - we're all vote by mail here and Oregon and New Jersey are the only two states that don't allow self-serve gas. Honestly - when it's a rainy cold winter day I'm glad.
I didn't realize that Oregon was vote by mail state! Learn something new every day. You're lucky to have the libraries located so conveniently to you. Mine is only 15 minutes away from the house but it just feels so far because I have to navigate a lot of one-way roads to get there.
Trish - yup - all vote by mail which I like. Once our ballots are turned in the call centers find out who has already voted and stop calling us. It's an incentive to vote soon after our ballots arrive.
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