If I'd written this yesterday I would have exhorted you to visit your local library forthwith to celebrate the last no-strings, useful, free stuff available to the general public... but local readers would have complained because traditionally most of the libraries in Wirral are closed on a Wednesday.
National Libraries Day is always on a Wednesday and hence is not very big in Wirral - that's why I never hear about it. I wouldn't have heard about it now but for Twitter, which also helped create one of my favourite posts about libraries I did when I first started: 'Why there are so many songs about librarians'*The library in both pictures is not the one I work in. It is the stunning Strahov Library in Prague, which I visited last year - you can see more than I did by taking this 'virtual tour' ... and if the pictures whet your appetite, there are many more gorgeous library pics at Beautiful Libraries. No drooling, please!
* Caution, dreadful pun alert
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OOOPS! Just discovered National Libraries Day is 4th FEBRUARY!! I'm not a day late, I'm a month early!! As you were... *grumbles: 'Bloody Twitter'*
Great list of song titles. I'd like to add, 'Folios Rush In?'
ReplyDeleteSo now that you're a month early, you also have a blog post you can rerun. ;)
ReplyDeleteI'd laugh, but this happens to me far too often.
Odd, a friend told me, and I quote: 'National Libraries Day is always on a Wednesday'. The 4th of February, if my calendar is to be believed, is a Saturday. The plot thickens.
ReplyDeleteMartin - Dewey really have to hurt you?
ReplyDeleteMaria - Hmmm *strokes imaginary beard* I like your thinking. I wonder if anyone would notice?
Dave - Your odd friend is WRONG!... Oh, you mean ME? You don't actually expect me to research that thoroughly do you? It made sense when I wrote it. I mean why wasn't I TOLD? You'd think it would have been mentioned in dispatches. I may have to DO something about this!
Feeling thoroughly forewarned now, if a bit confused. I am relieved to find though that I am not the only one making authoritative statements which prove to be completely wrong. I don't feel so alone now.
ReplyDeleteEarly, late - what is time, anyway?! Let's hear it for libraries and librarians everywhere...
ReplyDeleteelizabethm - you're not as confused as some of us!!
ReplyDeleteTrellissimo - Hurrah! Huzzah!
A month early - hahahaha. Better luck next month :)
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