CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY

“I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
— J.K. Rowling

(Source: donnerparty-allnight)

I wouldn’t want to get lost in this library in Sweden…

But feel free to get lost in ours!

It’s your last chance to sign up for a library card at our last Library Lounge on Thursday, September 8^th from 6:00-8:00pm at The Rail Bar & Grill located at 4709 North Damen Avenue.

The first 100 guests get a FREE Chicago Public Library T-shirt.

RSVP at notwhatyouthink@allterrain.net.

(Source: ohkaela)

thelifeguardlibrarian:

Making Room for Readers

It’s a mistake to rarify reading and put books out of reach. It’s a mistake to assume, as Alan Jacobsdid recently in the Chronicle of Higher Education (in a passage later quoted by Shelf Awareness), that readers are, “mostly born and only a little made.” Because those discoveries in libraries and bookstores — and, yes, on my parents’ shelves, too — are what made me a reader, not some mysterious, bibliogenic accident of birth. That kind of thinking not only makes fewer readers, but might unmake the ones already forming. In an era of reduced library budgets and hours, closing bookstores, declining sales, and lost readers, discouraging anyone, of any age, from picking up a book they’re interested in seems like the last thing we should be doing

So very true.

A great quote from a friend of libraries everywhere and the Spring 2011 One Book One Chicago author.

the-singing-light:

Yes.