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November 24, 2007
I Am NOT Jealous of the Enoch Pratt Free Library's Central Children’s Room
So what if they have a water fountain with fish and plants and a sculpture in their Central Library?
At WPL, we have a degenerate monkey:
Our Children’s Room isn’t in the basement, either. So there.
For real, though, I love this shelving the folks at Enoch Pratt have built on the walls for the fiction and magazines:
I want to have some shelves like this built in the back of the Children’s Room at WPL for the comics and the magazines, so they can all live together in harmony on something attractive, durable, and timeless. I’m envisioning three ranges of regular adjustable shelving about as tall as me flanked by a row or two of the slant shelving on each side. I like the idea of housing these collections near each other because I think they appeal to the same kinds of kids. I also want to put these collections in the quieter/sane area of the room I’m trying to create for older kids (by “older,” I mean third-fifth graders who, I understand from the comments they write me, are sick of having to deal with the preschoolers when they visit the library).
Someday.
Posted by adrienne at November 24, 2007 07:51 AM
Comments
You leave George alone!
Posted by: jp at November 24, 2007 11:26 AM
Ooh. I clicked on the link, too, and what a lovely outside that building has, too. Nice.
Posted by: Jules at November 24, 2007 11:56 AM
Hi! You're right, the Pratt Library is pretty awesome. It's a good thing, because we've got more murders and overvalued real estate than almost anywhere else in the country. I suppose that's why I hang out at the library in my spare time.
I'm on a quest to review every CD in the library's collection. Provided they don't add anymore and I can get Internet access from beyond the grave, I should finish a decade or two after I die. If you're interested in my largely irrelevant views on music, stop on by for a visit. Or, if you want to explore the glorious life outside the library walls, you can read this.
I enjoyed the few minutes I spent on your site, and good luck getting that "h" key fixed!
Posted by: Chuck at December 17, 2007 11:17 PM
Chuck, What a fun idea for a blog! I'll be the librarians would love knowing your blog was out there. If someone was doing that at library, I'd probably be linking to it from the library website.
Posted by: adrienne at December 18, 2007 09:43 AM