Libraries By Saralyn Richard ...

 

Libraries

By Saralyn Richard

                                            Rosenberg Library's Fox Room

I’ve always loved libraries. My mother was a regular patron at the turn-of-the-century library and museum in my hometown, Rosenberg Library, and I remember climbing the marble stairs to the third-floor children’s library, where I loaded up on books every two weeks. The high ceilings and cool, papery smell, the hushed sounds of people moving about, the tall wooden card catalogue cabinets with ti...