This is our entry for the Louisville Free Public Library Blogathon. Check out the story behind the blogathon on the wiki. You can donate the Louisville Free Public Library Foundation by clicking banner below. The blogathon is being done to help raise awareness about the flood and the need for donations.
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As a regional library cooperative, we thought we would solicit input from our members as to “why libraries rock” and post them as one blog entry from the entire region here for the blogathon. We used our listserv, Twitter, facebook page and other means to gather the input from our members. I also received one reply via our “My Plugoo” chat-with-us widget! So, with a big thanks to those who replied, here goes:
“Libraries ROCK because if you don’t have Internet it’s free at the library.” – NJ Librarian
Libraries are the modern churches; places where like minded people can go to connect, but better since you can explore and discover new things about yourself and our world. My school library was my first place of solace outside the home. I can’t imagine where I’d be without the library as a kid. – Karen Sue
What would we do in this economy without libraries? Give up reading, I suppose. [shudder] – Rachel Milligan Ferat
“Libraries rock because at any given moment we are serving any number of people from any and every walk of life – and we have something for every single one of them. Get the rocks out of your head – Come to the library!” – Kate Angelo, Long Branch Public Library
WHY LIBRARIES ROCK….
Like the rock ‘n’ roll sound, the public library combines services, collections and staff for something unique and special. Rock shakes up and incites, and libraries allow their own version of “unrestricted” in access to information. We librarians must keep the backbeat going for our patrons and our communities!
Laverne Mann, Ewing Branch Library
My library (Princeton Public) rocks because we have the following music available:
- Velvet Underground & Nico/Velvet Underground & Nico (perhaps the best rock album ever made)
- Ramones/Rock & Roll High School (the best ROCK band ever)
- Who/Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy (which might be the best ROCK album name ever)
And soooo much more…. – Cynthia Lambert, Princeton Public Library
Why libraries rock: Libraries are great places for rock concerts! The School of Rock – Princeton played at the West Windsor Branch of the Mercer County Library during the 2009 Teen Summer Reading Program. – Caroline Aversano
When the economy is standing still people go to the library to hunt for jobs, the library rocks, people work and the economy rocks. – George Conwell, Director, Hamilton Public Library
If you want to share your thoughts, there’s still time! Either send an email to amy at cjrlc dot org, or leave your thoughts in the comments area. There are many blogs posting on this theme today, so I hope you’ll check them out – you can see the list of blogathon blogs at the wiki.
Rock On!
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