Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Like Finding Treasure To Me - September 2, 2014

Being up north has its downfalls for me because I miss my city.  But you can’t take the adventurous side out of me even if I don’t feel that this town is as big of a playground as what I have been used to back home.  I feel one of my addictive hobbies is being seriously neglected, and that is reading and researching at the library.  In the city I had more choices, but the limited choices I have here doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate and love what I found at the local library.  

Much has changed since I was in this small library many years ago, and there is an old-fashioned cozy little setup they have in the corner with a self-serve station for hot beverages, and interesting reads which are rotated or completely changed daily to stimulate people to read new things they may not have before. They have old fashioned book shelves, wooden cabinets, places to sit or relax, coffee tables filled with some antiques and older books to add to their interesting stack of reads they’ve chosen, as well as the daily papers and recent magazines. If people want to donate money as a thank-you they have nifty little jar for coins to be put in for each cup you drink. I had an opportunity to be there with my dear friend I take care of Melanie (she works there a few times a week) while she worked because her day-worker is off, so I observed her and relaxed in the little nook they have.  To me, this was such a treasure to find.

Also, I didn’t need to pay for a membership because I have one in a major city, and they just gave me a new card that is now connected to my present one; so wherever I go other libraries see how I am staying connected. The cool thing with the card they gave me (I didn’t know libraries started doing this) it has empty spaces specifically for more numbers so that whenever I go to any library in other provinces I can get a free membership with them and they keep adding memberships to the cards to allow me to rent from them. Not that I would be able to jump across the country to keep adding new memberships, it is still a neat thing they are doing with them.

To end our time there, we sat with cups of teas in these fancy gorgeous blue cups and with some books we investigated.  It was so lovely!
~Ange.

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