I am often amazed at how people tend to view the library as a safe and comfortable place. While we work very hard to keep the building and people who come into the library safe and comfortable enough to spend time reading, using the computers, or attending meetings, the collection is a veritable den of iniquity that could scramble and possibly even change your mind. I write this a bit tongue-in-cheek, but only just a bit.
Our job at the library is to make available to all who enter our doors, a comprehensive assemblage of recorded knowledge. This means that there is something here to please and offend everyone.
When you come to the library, you get to choose. You can look at things from only one perspective, you can completely ignore a topic, or you can tackle it from every angle. That is the thing that I love the most about working in a public library; knowledge and information is uncensored and accessible.
Abraham Lincoln said, “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” At the library you can become wiser every day. To be wise though, you must enter a dangerous realm, you must let go of your fears and beliefs long enough to see if something else makes sense.
I wish you all, happy reading listening, and viewing. Read the inside flap or the cover before you check something out and then if you discover you selected something you don’t like, put it down or turn it off. There is no rule that says you must finish reading, listening to, or viewing any item you borrow from the library.
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