I really like mine. I find them relaxing. A peaceful oasis from the hectic outdoors.

There's people reading.

I work in one

yes Yes YES ... often

Yes, almost every day.

Lleena said:

I can spend hours there, just browsing (pretending to look intelligent ) and absorbing.

Even with the vast amount of information and data available on the internet, there's just something special, something different about actually physically thumbing through pages of print (and pictures ) to ascertain knowledge..... It kind of almost feels traditional, almost nostalgic too



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Toledo has a great library...that's where I spent countless hours
in my youth.

Never been to Detroit's Main Library, which I believe is downtown.
They have different branches, but they are a pitiful excuse for libraries.

Dearborn has a nice one too...but being a Detroit resident, I have to "join"
the Dearborn branch...$$$$.

Libraries are cool.

Kayleigh said:

Any stories you'd like to share Kayleigh!?

Cloudbuster said:

Meet me by the biographies
I'll be carrying a book on steam locomotives of the 1900s.

senik said:

I agree Senik. It it also reminds me of childhood, I remember when I used to bring books home from the school library and I was completely anal about anyone touching them, in case they left a mark on them and I would have to explain at school that my little sister had leafed through it with her Jam sandwiched fingers. The horror of that was too much for me

Revolution said:

Yes they are!

Lleena said:

I know what you mean. I used to get off the school bus a stop late to visit the library. Mesmeric places libraries. Mine was extra special coz it was adjoined to a museum..... so there!

Recently, I've been spending more dineros than time in the library

Since June '03 I've paid shed loads of fines for various books on numerous occasions, in excess of atleast £45!

I"m I'm in the mood for some good old public bathroom glory hole sex, sure.

But never for the books, they all smell funny.

senik said:

45 quid!


That's one of the downsides, those damn fines

attatched to a museum was it...

AsianBomb777 said:

A book sniffing nymphomaniac? you sound like my kind of man AsianBomb

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TheDuck said:

inspired by Walt Disney, it would seem

Taureau said:

One of the finest examples of the Richardsonian Romanesque is the Amelia S. Givin Public Library in **** 1890. The architect was James T. Steen from Pittsburgh. The Givins Library was made from brownstone quarried locally. This library is distinguished by outstanding moorish fretwork woodwork done by Moses Ransom from Cleveland.

Steen was a prominent architect in Pittsburgh at this time and did several buildings downtown in the romanesque style. The old Western Pennsylvania University (now University of Pittsburgh) was designed by Steen. Both of Steen's sons also became
well known architects. (information courtesy Paul Tucker).

The brownstone was from the quarries of the Hummelstown Brownstone Company in Derry Township, Dauphin County, PA, which are approximately forty miles from
****. This quarry produced some of the highest quality brownstone at the turn of the century for buildings from New York State to Florida and as far west as St. Louis. The Givin Library is one such building. (information courtesy Ben Olena.)

This library is strongly influenced by the Richardsonian Romanesque style of the Crane Public Library in Quincy, MA, 1881.

The style was named for Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886). It is a revival style based on French and Spanish Romanesque precedents of the 11th century. (Romanesque preceded Gothic in European architecture.) Richardson's style is characterized by massive stone walls and dramatic semicircular arches, and a new dynamism of interior space. Continuity and unity are keynotes of Richardson's style. The Richardsonian Romanesque eclipsed both the IInd Empire Baroque and the High Victorian Gothic styles; the style had a powerful effect on such Chicago architects as Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, and influenced architects as far away as Scandinavia.

you would have bumped my library thread if it were still bumpable right Lleena?





oh btw the answer to your question here is YES I GO



I have a wallet full of library cards in many counties!!

PEJ said:

You're just a library book loaning "G"

TheDuck said:

Thanks, that was interesting

Lleena said:

I'll be wearing a sock.

No. I love to read, but the library feels so stuffy and uncomfortable.

Yeah, it's a good masturbating place cause no ones there and they have like porn in there, so i masturbate there often.

I don't have the patience to sit down and read, so no.

jayaredee said:

Revolution said:

Detroit's main library is between Cass and Woodward across from WSU State Hall...it's an awesome, awesome place. You can even rent movies there
The Dearborn Centenial Library on Michigan Avenue (across from Ford World Headquarters) is THE BOMB!!! Your kids would love it there!

Ours is like a club for 13yr olds. I hate going in there for that reason. Too bad cuase it was remodeled nicely. And on top of that their search engine has gone waaaay downhill. But when I force my self to go in there I get CDs and books for the dreaded paper I'm writing at the time (iF I can actually find the books there)

I was thrown out for exposing myself