I spent as much time as possible in the school library as a kid. When I was a wee moppet the "library" was just the shelves in the back of the classroom (which held three grades), and we each had two big decorated name cards that we'd slot into the spaces of the books we checked out, so that they could be shelved again easily. Then in fourth grade we moved to the city, and I got to go to a school where the library was a whole separate room! Two rooms, even, for the primary and secondary libraries! Awesome!
...what blew my mind in high school was discovering that one could talk to librarians about specific books. Or even get recommendations. Librarians were the nice teacher-like people who sometimes gave presentations on Reading Is Nice, or explained how to use the card catalog, and checked out books. The idea that I could go ask them questions about stuff, and get help? Now that was a paradigm shift.
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Date: 2012-09-07 12:25 am (UTC)...what blew my mind in high school was discovering that one could talk to librarians about specific books. Or even get recommendations. Librarians were the nice teacher-like people who sometimes gave presentations on Reading Is Nice, or explained how to use the card catalog, and checked out books. The idea that I could go ask them questions about stuff, and get help? Now that was a paradigm shift.