Places That Close Early

Places That Feel Like Home

Places That Feel Too Quiet

Places That Hum

Accumulate

Are Easier To Maintain Than Rebuild

Become More Interesting The Closer You Get

Become More Interesting With Age

Become More Valuable Together

Become Themselves Through Use

Borrow Authority From Age

Borrow Time

Carry Civilization

Collect Stories

Create Density

Create Gravity

Create Invisible Work

Create More Than They Contain

Create More Than They Cost

Create Permanence

Create Regulars

Decay Through Neglect

Depend On Maintenance

Depend On Order

Depend On Quality More Than Timing

Extend Memory

Gather

Get Published In Academic Journals

Have Seen A Lot

Improve Their Surroundings

Invite Exploration

Invite Ownership

Invite Return

Invite Return Visits

Invite Stewardship

Lend

Make A Place Feel Human

Make Knowledge Durable

Make Scale Human

Organize Abundance

Organize Memory

Outlive Excitement

Outlive Their Creator

Preserve

Quietly Connect Eras

Reduce Asymmetry

Remember

Repay Attention

Rescue From Oblivion

Reward Curiosity

Reward Custodianship

Reward Density

Reward Depth

Reward Familiarity

Reward Maintenance

Reward Observation

Reward Placement

Reward Preservation

Reward Scale

Reward Stewardship

Reward Stewardship Across Time

Reward Wandering

Stay Put

Store

Turn Responsibility Into Legacy

Turn Strangers Into Neighbors

library

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North Korea

suicide

secret

top secret

librarian

job interview

book

chicken

one-liner

Chlamydia

extra-marital affair

probability

pick-up line

local

Bible

fiction

nonsense question

borrowing

Immanuel Kant

book collection

Internet

multitasking

book collector

browser history

internet search history

psychiatry

amnesia

bookstore

procrastination

academia

academics

university

christmas present

stick

paranoia

college

studying

reading

relaxation

resort

frolicking

pornography

porn

mystery novel

biker

perfume

is a display case of the vanity of human hopes.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

is a noisy place to those with ears to hear: on their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization.

To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization.

is a place that lets you borrow the beauty and keep the knowledge.

The library lets you borrow the beauty and keep the knowledge.

is a place to sit and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

is a place where you can live a thousand lives.

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living' Visit your library today. Stephen King

is a reservoir of strength, grace and wit, a reminder of order, calm and continuity, a lake of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

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