#libraries!

[queerliblib]

We might feel a LITTLE bit strongly about the importance of libraries. Luckily, there’s a week for that!! This is the time to yell about your love for libraries from the rooftops! Tell your friends to get a QLL membership and/or to donate! 

[qqueenofhades]

ok im the anon from A While Back who asked about whether it was appropriate to email librarians for things. thank you so much for encouraging me to do just that? the library replied to me so quickly with a very nice list of all sorts of things i could look into, it was a tremendous help :D

As I said, lol. Librarians WILL rush to the Gadzooks A Student Needs My Help Batsignal and they are always happy to do it. Bless.

[thebrideofreanimator]

just hit me how big my schools library is and how many things i need to borrow from it rn. the worlds beautiful guys.

[vintagesewingmachine]

stopped by my public library today to pick up a book on knots and realized they have a whole section of comics/graphic novels i never noticed before. very pleased i will not be spending any money on comics but i can still check out the general vibe.

[venuscomb]

CA! I seem to have lost my memory of how to respond to a response on an ask. (How convoluted…) But what does a house that’s part library look like, you ask?

(I always imagine myself at night in a darkened room with many lamps, books lining the walls, plants and white fairy lights winding through them, a desk where I write, everything quiet, even magical. I keep my room this way, I guess: part library, part coffee shop, lots of shadows and small lights, blankets tossed over the arms of couches and chairs, seashells tucked here and there, very old embroidery of a unicorn or of white flowers...)

The most important parts of a library, for me, are shelves full of books, shadowed nooks and curtained windows to hide it, colored lamps. Fancy twisty wooden stairs up to a mezzanine level and rolling ladders running alongside ceiling-height bookshelves.

(At least one closet would be changed into a library/reading nook because I saw one on pinterest and am obsessed.) (An old card file cabinet somewhere that would be lovely.) (Pens and journals and legal pads would be stashed in hidden drawers, and a lot the art around the house would seem like things you would find in old books…)

[nasturtiumorange]

The construction workers on the library reno found out VPL staff had nicknamed their crane ‘Citizen Crane’. Now they’ve made a big sign and are using the name themselves!

On another note, I could have sworn I added a ruler to my pencil case, but it seems to have walked off.

[nasturtiumorange]

1995. A new home for the Central branch: seven floors of books, a moat, a Tintin rocket, the forbidden compact shelving, and hidden passages underground, where the librarians scurry back and forth unseen. In other words, the bestest freaking playground ever.