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I was an awkward, intense, and shy kid. My hometown had a gorgeous Carnegie Library, which was nice because the rest of the town was a shithole. My mom worked there part time for a few years and when she couldn’t find a babysitter I would come with her to work and just sit in the aisles reading for hours. It was my happy place. Like a warm hug. Libraries save lives!
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What do you remember of your childhood library?
groupwrct
I remember all of them. My school libraries. The city libraries. Especially the post libraries when I was on active and National Guard duty.
mattlmilitia
As a kid, the library was about discovery. I learned about anything my young mind could ever dream of! And then zoned out to awesome music:)
pumpkinseason
Runescape with the boys
fnoigy
It always smelled like somebody pooped in every book
florpglorp
The smell and sound of moving paper books. The line for the computer, learning to read and the summer reading challenges.
PineappleIsDeliciousOnPizzaFightMe
Boring building. My best memory is the one time I played hooky from high school. That's where I went – the library. I am a rebel.
Freedumbed
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
They had lots of great comic books
Subtilico
Spent a lot of time in libraries as a kid. One time I got very sick, managed to reach the toilets ad threw up all over it. After (1)
Subtilico
regaining my posture I tried to clean things up,but the smell was so goddamn awful that I bailed out and went home. (2)
DrJDX
I grew up in an area with a high water table, so mostly I remember that it had a basement! It was full of microfilms of old newspapers!
Seethreepeeoh
Your mom
AmericasTorturedBrow
I’ll tell her you said hi!
Seethreepeeoh
Thanks son
TiredOldBroad
Sounds like the library in the town that I lived closest to. Grew up on a farm and the town was 15 miles away (one way).
kribbletastic
I remember the smell, and the hideous light brown carpet.
SpaceHaggis
Hot librarian
AmericasTorturedBrow
Dad?
SupposablyPersnickity
I have a thing for Rachel Weisz because of he role in The Mummy.
JimmyWalkerTexasRanger
Zanzetuken
Huge mural of various fairy tales. Robinhood, Snow white, Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver's Travels, and probably a lot more I can't remember.
Zanzetuken
It was in the hallway to the kid's section, and it was super cool.
LordBrandonTheBold
We had a Carnegie library too. The smell of books, the high ceilings, and the quiet. Beaver Falls, Carnegie Free Library, circa 1988.
Seethreepeeoh
Huh huh, beaver falls.
LordBrandonTheBold
I live just outside in.....Big Beaver Burrough.
JohnBigboote74
It had a lot of skylights that were cool to sit under on rainy days. There were newspapers threaded onto long sticks in the reading area.
JohnBigboote74
There was a separate card catalog in the children's section of the library. And the microfiche room was behind the front help desk.
AmericasTorturedBrow
Yes, microfiche!
RadiDaddy
I loved our Carnegie library. Kid’s department in the basement, the card catalogs. It’s been turned into City Hall after the old City 1/
RadiDaddy
Hall started falling apart and had to be torn down.