Comments on: I am a child of the library https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/ Sat, 13 Jul 2013 20:55:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507456 Sat, 13 Jul 2013 20:55:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507456 In reply to julie.

I went to PS 18! But only for kindergarten, then St James, then for AT at 23, then Milne, then community school, etc.

I don’t think I pissed anyone off. I think I was simply seen as too young. I was a precocious reader. They probably did not want a six year old messing with their books. Plus, I was a boy, maybe there was some discrimination there. This all may depend on what year you vs. I were there, too. Miss Baker does sound awful familiar, though!

]]> By: julie https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507455 Sat, 13 Jul 2013 20:47:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507455 I grew up in Albany and became a libraria because of Miss Baker at Delaware Branch. Oh my.. you must have pissed someone off mightily. I never had a problem taking out aldult books at any age.. I very rapidly moved from the low level children’s section on the right,.. to the young adult section on on the tall shelves on the right, and then moved over to Adult section on left.. And unless you went to school 18 .. which I sort of doubt..there were libraries in ALL public schools that went up to 8th grade. PLUS .. if you were in AT., the classroom received a new box of about 15o box every 6 weeks.

]]> By: Pam Blome https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507454 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:47:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507454 I’m a librarian, but I had a similar experience as a child; but my Mom stepped up and checked out the book I wanted for me — which I saw as a good lesson in parenting!! Thanks for the story & video!!!

]]> By: Tore https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507453 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:30:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507453 One of my childhood dreams was to be locked in a library with a generous supply of food and drink.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507452 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:44:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507452 Let me know when you blog about that!

]]> By: Domestigoth https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507451 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:34:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507451 What appropriate timing! Here in Toronto we’ve recently had a bit of a media kerfuffle, as the Mayor’s brother (a city councilor) has decided that it would be appropriate to cut library funding in his district and close several branches down. He also picked a fight with a famous Canadian author, Margaret Atwood, when she spoke up via Twitter to defend our public libraries. I’ve been planning for weeks to blog about the subject — and now I’ve got a video to attach to it.

As a side-note, I too am a child of the library: until I was 5 or 6 years old, my mom actually worked at the library, and I spent most of my days in the children’s section being looked after by various librarians while she was busy in the offices, or sitting quietly in a corner of the county headquarters with a small stack of books while she went to board meetings. By the time I reached kindergarten I was terribly socially maladjusted, but could read better than my eighth grade reading partner.

]]> By: PIers Cawley https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507450 Sun, 04 Sep 2011 07:52:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507450 The code/books confusion is entirely my fault. I’d got an introduction planned that would have made it plain which I meant but then it flew out of my head as I got on stage. Something along the lines of “Like the hat? I learned to make it by reading a book, which I got from the libraryâ?¦”

Ah well.

I’m glad you like it.

]]> By: Simea mirans https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507449 Sat, 03 Sep 2011 01:41:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507449 One day they changed librarians…

Librarians have to be changed regularly — it’s in the health code. I’m waiting for my change now.

]]> By: joemac53 https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507448 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:52:38 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507448 When you’re a nerd, you’re a nerd. I was sitting in the movie theater with my three daughters for a Harry Potter or LOTR movie, the only times I have seen the inside of the theater in 30 years. The pre-movie announcements were innocuous until the dancing ticket said “Sound out these pictures to name a famous star!”

I started thinking Vega….Sirius??? I was getting nowhere, and then the answer was flashed:
Rock Hudson
I started laughing out loud, so my daughters (who don’t want to be embarrassed by their old man) demand to know what’s so funny!!!

I just told them “Your father is a nerd.”

]]> By: ancientTechie https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507447 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:35:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/08/31/i-am-a-child-of-the-library/#comment-507447 Your story resonates with me. When my parents moved from a rural to urban area, I was in fifth grade and reading at college level, but the city library’s policy limited me to the children’s section. Fortunately, I had a teacher who checked books out of the library’s adult section for me, every week. Some books I requested, others she selected for me. Thanks to her, I read all of Shakespeare’s plays. That was a great year for reading!

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